The message you would give yourself in six months takes thirty seconds to write and is worth more than most of the advice you will get between now and then, mostly because you cannot argue with yourself the way you argue with everyone else.
Write it here, pick the day you want it back, and the tool schedules it. It shows you the delivery date spelled out, counts the days until it, and prints the message back to you in a box so you can read exactly what future you is going to open.
One honest detail: the whole thing runs in your browser. There is no account, no database and nothing to log into later, which has consequences covered further down this page.
Write a message to your future self and schedule a reminder for when you need it most.
How to use it
Three fields. The message in the big box, the date you want it delivered, and an email address if you want one. Press Schedule Reminder and the result shows a heading, the delivery date in long form, a day count, and a preview of what you wrote.
The delivery date is always set to 9am on the day you pick, which is a sensible default: nobody wants to be handed a heartfelt note at 11:59pm on the night an assignment is due. The day count runs from the moment you press the button up to 9am on that date, and rounds up to the next whole day.
Three error messages, all of them self-explanatory. “Please write a message to your future self.” when the box is empty. “Please select a delivery date.” when there is no date. “Delivery date must be in the future.” if you picked yesterday. Reset clears all three fields and the result.
A worked reminder
Write the message on Tuesday 29 September 2026, choose Thursday 15 October 2026, press the button. The result reads Thursday, October 15, 2026 for the delivery date, because October 15 falls on a Thursday this year, and the day count underneath depends on the hour you press it.
Press at 10am and it says 16 days: from 10am on the 29th to 9am on the 15th is 15 days and 23 hours, and the counter rounds up. Press the same form at 8am and it says 17, because there is now a full 16 days and an hour left. Both numbers are right, they are just answering a slightly different question, so do not be alarmed when a colleague gets a different figure from the same date.
Smaller version of the same thing: choose tomorrow and it always reads 1 day, even if you press it at 11pm with ten hours to go. Rounding up turns ten hours into a day, which is the honest reading anyway — you will wake up once before it arrives.
Under the date sits the preview box with your message verbatim, then a confirmation line. Add an email address and that line changes to say a copy will be sent to you on the delivery date. Leave it blank and it tells you to come back on the date to read it.
What it does not do
No mail actually goes out. The confirmation sentence is printed by the page, but there is no server behind this tool that queues anything, sends anything, or knows your address after you leave. If you need a reminder that will genuinely arrive, put the date in your own calendar as well and treat this page as the place you wrote the letter, not the postal service that delivers it.
Nothing is saved either. Refresh and the message, the date and the email are all gone. Copy anything you care about somewhere else before you close the tab, because a message to yourself that vanishes is worse than no message at all.
What makes a good one: name the date and the stakes. “You submitted the assignment and it went fine” beats “relax, it will be okay”, and “check the transcript before the deadline on the 20th” is the kind of instruction that is useless three months later and essential two days before. Write the thing you would tell a friend in the same position, then sign off.
It is also not private in any special way. The text sits in your browser until you clear it, so do not paste passwords, medical details or anyone else’s information into the box. A note to yourself is one thing; sensitive data in a text field on any website is another.
Other tools
- GCSE grade boundaries — the kind of result your future message is probably about
- German grade converter — for the transcript you will be reading when the date arrives
- WASSCE aggregate — same, with a lower number being the better outcome
Frequently asked questions
Will it really send me an email?
No. The page prints a confirmation that mentions a copy being sent, but nothing on this site sends mail or stores your address. Set a real reminder in your calendar too if the date matters.
What time of day does it arrive?
9am on the date you choose, hard-coded. The day count counts up to that 9am and rounds up to a whole number of days, which is why the same date can show two different figures depending on when you press the button.
Can I schedule a message for a past date?
No. A date before today comes back with “Delivery date must be in the future.” If you want to reread something you already wrote, put it in a notes app instead.
Does my message stay on the site?
No, and nothing else does either. The message lives in the page for as long as the tab is open, then it is gone. Copy it out before you navigate away.
How far ahead can I schedule?
As far as the date field will go. A year out reads 365 days, or 366 if you press it before 9am in the morning, for the same rounding reason as everything else on this page.