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Easily E-mail Stuff to Yourself to Read Later

About a hundred times a day, I encounter articles and Web pages that I need to read, but don't have time at the moment to deal with. My solution: I e-mail the link to myself, so I can follow up when I have some free time. If you do the same sort of thing, then you might appreciate this tool, which automates and simplifies sending yourself links to read later.

Notes for Later is a bookmarklet you click to automatically send a link to the current Web page to your e-mail account. It's incredibly easy to set up -- visit the Notes for Later site and enter your e-mail address (no other registration steps required -- your e-mail is needed to make the bookmarklet work properly). You'll get a link to a page with your custom bookmarklet prepared. Just drag that to your browser's Favorites bar.

From then on, whenever you see something you need a reminder about, click the button in your Favorites and you'll get an immediate e-mail. You can even set up a rule in your e-mail client to file incoming Notes for Later messages to a specific folder, making the whole thing even more useful and convenient. Notes for Later is free -- grab it today.

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