If you've ever sat down to go through your inbox in one fell swoop, you may have noticed that by the time you finished, half the people you emailed had already replied. There's one other important reason you might want to schedule your messages. Please don't let your recipients know you heard this from us. You might try sending messages that recipients might perceive as annoying on the weekends, when people are more tolerant. One other, somewhat sketchy tip: Unsubscribe rates for marketing email is significantly lower during weekends than during weekdays (controlling for opens), probably because we're in a better mood. Make your boss think you’re working late (be careful, this can backfire!).Send reminders and directions to guests right before an event or meeting.Schedule birthday or holiday messages in advance.Make sure a message arrives when a co-worker is back from vacation.Make your messages arrive at an appropriate time, even if your recipient is in a different time zone.In addition to boosting the chances our message will get read, there are a lot of other handy reasons we might want to write an email now, but have it sent later: There are tools that allow us to write and schedule a message now, but have it be sent at a later time. Fortunately, email technology can help us. Of course, few of us want to be firing up the old email system before 6 in the morning, or spending our lunch hour on the computer. The best times to send messages, according to their likelihood of being opened and interacted with, are before work and during lunch. is almost three times as likely to see a link clicked as one sent at 4:00 P.M.? It turns out that scheduling messages for times when people are feeling fresh (and have high blood sugar!) makes them significantly more likely to have a successful result. Did you know that an email sent at 6:00 A.M. From comedy routines to your likelihood of being granted probation (below 10% for the hearing immediately before lunch, 65% for the hearing immediately after), it turns out that when we say something matters almost as much as what we say.