Looking back or looking forward
Comments: 3 - Date: December 26th, 2007 - Categories: Off Topic!
If you are like me, during this week between Christmas and New Years, you are spending some time reflecting on the past year and thinking a bit about the next year. If you are, then have I got a website for you! FutureMe.org! FutureMe allows you to write an email to your future self. You write yourself a note, set a delivery date in the future (at least 1 year into the future), and then you promptly forget what you wrote. Then when the date arrives, you get an unexpected blast from the past.
I’ve been using FutureMe.org for years, for all sorts of future-related emails. It is always an excellent surprise to get these messages. I just got an email today that I wrote last Christmas about how nice the holiday with my family had been. My favorite, and most unexpected, email arrived on my PhD graduation day. I had written a note several years beforehand of both congratulations and encouragement, hedging my bets that maybe I was graduating, but maybe I wasn’t, and that was A-O-K.
Happy 2008! And send off a message to the future today!
Comment by Tony - 27 December 2007 @ 7:08 am
Merry Christmas, Joan.
What do you think you would have written your past self (the one that wrote you your phd graduation-day email) if you could?
–tony
Comment by Joan DiMicco - 9 January 2008 @ 4:55 pm
I would say, life is good when you are done, so it is worth pushing through!
Hope you are making good progress!
Comment by Lisa Kleinman - 15 January 2008 @ 4:33 pm
Hi J — just found this new blog of yours from the CSCW-Blog web site! Glad to see that you are blogging again — I have not had the renewed mindset to do so yet. I’m still plugging away at my dissertation stuff slowly, but maybe I will catch you at CSCW later this year (don’t think I will make it to CHI). -Lisa
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