While Summer is in Chucktown doing the enviro-nerd thing, I thought I’d sneak in with a bit of webnerdery. Plus, it’s always good to lighten the mood after a politically charged 20-bagger (our internal nerd-slang for a post w/ 20 comments).

If you’re anything like me, you suck at email. I’m constantly behind, always cowering from the ever-growing bright-blue bold number next to my “Unread Items” (currently holding steady at 122 baby, yea!)  Staring at me like a blinking bomb-timer, I always feel like its a measure of my failure to be productive (and inversely proportional to my stress level.)

Furthermore, the higher the number, the less willing I am to wade into the quicksand, having to employ all sorts of filters, labels and to-do list items that are basically intended to remind me to “do this later.”

Enter HitMeLater (via TechCrunch), a service that allows you forward any email to 24@hitmelater.com and it will send it back to you 24 hours later, putting it on the top of your inbox pile. Whoa! Has God been listening to my late-night prayers and email exhasperations?

You can change the number of hours to anything you like, up to 1,000 hours ahead (3@hitmelater.com sends it back three hours later). Alternatively, put in a day (Wednesday@hitmelater sends it back the next Wednesday). If you send it something it doesn’t understand, HitMeLater sends back a polite email message saying “We’re not sure what you want.”

How cool is that?  Now if I can only find a snooze button for my voicemail, or better yet, my laundry.

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