Recently I was talking a lot about Gmail and of course there are more. Today I’m going to talk about how to enable scheduled and Bounce back features for Gmail. This comes with the name Boomerang, a plug in to your browser and it supports Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Safari. After successful installation you will get a new controls in Gmail which let you to configure scheduling and bounce back.
Steps to Configure
- Go to Boomerang home page.
- There you will be able to see a button labeled “Install Boomerang”. Click on that.
- It will automatically detect your browser and start downloading appropriate plug-in.
- All the instruction you need is there in download page.
- After the installation restart your browser and go to Gmail.
- There you will be able to see step by step guide for boomerang since you using it for the first time.
- That will give you clear picture about how to use Boomerang.
What You Can Do With Boomerang?
The main thing that you can do with Boomerang is schedule an email. After installing boomerang there will be a new button in Gmail text editor as shown below.
This button is having a drop down menu and there you can schedule the email the way you want with lots of options.
If you are sending many number of emails everyday you have no way to track whether you are getting reply to all those. In the case you seriously need a reply for a specific email you can mark it with boomerang. Then it will remind you if you won’t get a reply for that email in a given period of time. To get thing done there is another new check box is there in email editor.
Before you start using this feature you have to authenticate it. This authentication page comes as a pop up and most of the browsers will block it. Therefore you have to enable pop ups from Gmail to authenticate this application. After successful authentication you can start using Boomerang feature. It will boomerang the email on given condition.
Wrapping Up
Boomerang plug in is very carefully design to work with Gmail and it’s perfectly blending with its interfaces. Entire functionalities are working just fine and so far I didn’t come across with any bugs. Boomerang completes Gmail adding scheduling and bounce back features. The best part this works with Gmail in Google apps as well.
Enjoy using Boomerang for Gmail and never forget to share what you experienced with Notes of Genius community.
Tags: #Gmail #Google