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Rated 4,5 of 5 at MacWorld.com - "It’s simplicity at its finest."

”I have tried a gazillion different task managers and list applications, but really, the only stuff that gets done is what I have in my e-mail inbox. That is my REAL to-do list!”

”The challenge is finding a simple way to get stuff into my inbox. Using the ordinary iPhone eMail app is just too much hassle...”

MailMe is the quickest way to get all those things that you need to remember from your iPhone into your e-mail inbox.

MailMe sports an optimized user interface where all unnecessary taps have been eliminated, so that you can keep you focus on the idea, note or task that you want to capture.

Just start the application. Enter the text, and click send. Done!

The note now appears in your eMail inbox as an e-mail sent from "MailMe".

Once there you can use whatever system or tactic you want to structure these notes.

Since the messages are sent from "MailMe" you can create rules in your e-mail application to e.g. highlight them, or automatically move the MailMe messages to a specific mailbox.

--- Note! SMTP settings can be tricky. MailMe works best if you use the SMTP provided by your mobile network operator, but it has also been tested with gMail and MobileMe. If you don't use gMail or MobileMe, make sure you have your SMTP settings before buying MailMe. ---

Visit http://getmailme.com for more information.

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MailMe Text - Your notes straight to your e-mail inbox Review

Simple app great for sending notes to yourself

by Brian Beam, Macworld.com

It seems like my life revolves around managing an ever-increasing number of tasks. To help keep everything in order, I’ve come up with a pretty simple system involving Things, the awesome to-do list manager, and my email Inbox. (In honor of both productivity guru Merlin Mann and bad ’80s movies, I have dubbed my system “The Thing with an Inbox Less Than Zero.”) Here’s how it works:


Note to Self: MailMe only does one thing—send an e-mail to yourself from your iPhone or iPod touch—but it lets you do it with a minimum of fuss.
Tasks flow into my Inbox. If the task is quick and easy, I’ll just do it immediately and then remove the message. If I can’t do it right away, or if it’s part of a bigger project, then I’ll enter it into Things and remove the message. If it’s something I just don’t feel like dealing with at the moment, then it remains in my Inbox. Items in my Inbox eventually get processed and I achieve nirvana when my Inbox becomes empty.

There’s also a useful Things iPhone app, but when I’m away from my computer, I prefer to record tasks or reminders by sending myself a quick e-mail and putting them into my Inbox workflow. Always in search of more efficient ways of doing things (my wife prefers to call this noble quest “laziness”), I want that to be a super-quick process, and using the iPhone’s Mail app is more of a hassle than you might think. Then I discovered MailMe by inUse, and my system became complete.

MailMe does only one thing: It lets you send yourself an e-mail in the fewest possible steps. No creating a new message, no selecting your address or typing a subject. Just open the app, type a message and send it. That’s it.

The note appears in your Inbox with your text appearing in both the body and the subject line. Perfect. That way I don’t even have to open the message to process it. And since the subject line is prefixed with “MailMe,” that makes it easy to create a mail rule to flag those messages.

Setting up the app is very simple. The first time you use MailMe, you give it your e-mail address and your smtp (outgoing) mail server info, then you’re ready to go. One option I would like to see is the ability to assign a priority (High, Normal or Low, say) to your messages. Other than that, MailMe doesn’t do much, but it does exactly what I want. It’s simplicity at its finest.

MailMe is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.x software update.

[Brian Beam is web developer and partner with BOLD Internet Solutions, living somewhere near Kansas City.]

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All jottings where I can find them

The problem I have had with quick note programs dating way back to SideKick is having my notes/reminders right in my face when I return to my desk. As my inbox is always stop #1 this nifty app works very well with my inherent lack of self discipline! :)

No Exhange Support

Really wanted this for work, but it does not work with my exchange email address. If only they could make it mail from one address to another. Shouldn't be that hard. Then I could email my work account from my mobile me account.

MailMe lives up to its name and purpose

MailMe is a great app that does one simple thing very quickly and efficiently -- it allows me to QUICKLY send myself an email. Plain and simple, that's all it does.So for those times when I am out and about and suddenly remember something I am supposed to do, I open this app, type what I need to remind myself to do and click Send. Boom! Done! The email is sent.This is SO MUCH easier than opening up the iPhone email app and going through all the steps to sending myself an email.So yes, this is a real time saver and a great app that will certainly help me GET THINGS DONE! I love it and highly recommend it. Definitely worth $0.99!

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