Email reminder, 1d@gleym.com gives you a reminder in 1 day, Send an email to 1d@gleym.com to receive a reminder in one day, you'll get an echo of your original email.
d=day,
h=hour,
w=week,
m=month f.x. 2d@gleym.com=2 days 1h@gleym.com=1 hour 4d1h@gleym.com=4 days and 1hour 72h@gleym.com=72 hours. |
I wrote and am operating a similar service at http://remaildr.com
The implementation is open source at https://github.com/Pluies/remaildr/
The main issue I've had with this side project is the availability that wasn't so great (as monitoring was conspicuously absent from the start and I never got around to actually setting it up, but I've got plans for it!) and it was eventually caught by spam due to Spamassassin misconfiguration on my part.
So I hope you have a good process for handling spam, and fingers crossed your code crashes less often than mine :)
We started out doing exactly that... send an email with a human readable date to our service, and we'll send you that email back. We also support recurring reminders (every3days@followup.cc), sending attachments directly to evernote (evernote@followup.cc), dropbox, drive, and other things: http://help.followup.cc/knowledge_base/topics/cheat-sheet
We do a lot more now, but that's still our core functionality. We also have a widely adopted Chrome Extension that also makes this a point-and-click operation, but I personally go with the text based approach.
That said, I agree that a simple explanation on the homepage would be useful for people who are just interested in the reminder piece.