Forward an email, get a note

Find your address

1. Open Settings → Integrations.

   It's in Remindly on your iPhone, iPad or Mac, and on the web. Every plan has an address.

2. Under Email to Remindly, copy the address.

   It's your name followed by a string of random letters, at remindly.com. Add it to your contacts so it's easy to pick when you forward something.

Send or forward an email

From any email account, on any device, forward a message to your address or write a new one to it. It becomes a note as soon as it arrives, and shows on each of your devices at its next sync.

• Forward an order confirmation, a boarding pass, a booking or an article from a newsletter to keep it with your notes.
• Write to yourself. An email to your address is a quick way to save a note from a computer or phone that doesn't have Remindly.
• Tag it on the way in. Put + and a tag before the @, as in sam.k7m2p9xqhd+receipts@remindly.com, and the note is tagged receipts.

The note goes to the notebook chosen under Save to, or to no notebook if none is picked.

Forward mail automatically

A forwarding filter saves the mail you'd always want to keep, like receipts from one shop, without you lifting a finger. In Gmail:

1. In Gmail on a computer, open Settings → See all settings → Forwarding and POP/IMAP and choose Add a forwarding address.

   Enter your Remindly address. Add a tag first, like +orders before the @, if you want this filter's notes tagged.

2. Confirm it from Remindly.

   Gmail sends a confirmation email to the address, so it arrives as a note. Open the note and click the link in it, or type its code into Gmail.

3. Make a filter that forwards to it.

   Search for the mail you want, for example from:auto-confirm@amazon.com, then choose Create filter, tick Forward it to and pick your Remindly address.

Gmail's forwarding settings don't change your inbox, so you still get the mail as before. Outlook, iCloud Mail and most other email services have forwarding rules that work the same way.

What the note looks like

• The subject is the title, without the Re: or Fwd: in front.
• Who it's from and when sit at the top, then the message itself, tidied into plain text with its headings, lists, links and tables kept. Tracking pixels and hidden text are dropped.
• Pictures and attachments come along. Images show in the note, and PDFs and other files are attached to it. They count toward your storage.
• An email forwarded as an attachment follows as its own section in the same note.
• The note is dated the day the email arrived, and you can edit, tag, move or set a reminder on it like any other note.

Replies and orders in one note

With Group replies and updates on, which it is to start with, related mail is added to the note the first email made instead of starting a new one:

• A reply in the same thread is added to the note of the message it answers.
• Mail about the same order is added too: the shipped and delivered emails that carry the order number of a confirmation from the same shop in the last six months.

Each new email goes at the end of the note under a line, with its own subject, sender and date. Anything you've written in the note stays where it is.

If you move the note to the Trash, later mail about that order or thread starts a fresh note. Turn grouping off to get one note for every email.

The other settings

In Settings → Integrations → Email to Remindly:

• Save to picks the notebook new emailed notes go to. Notes already saved stay where they are.
• Group replies and updates turns grouping on or off. In the apps it's called Group replies and order updates.
• Last received (or Last email in the apps) shows when the latest email arrived. On the web it also counts today's emails against the daily limit of 200.
• New address makes a new address and stops the old one at once. Mail to the old address is returned to the sender, so update any forwarding filters that use it.

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