Did you ever wish you could remember your dreams and aspirations before you became distracted by everyday concerns? Are you sure you had great ideas but can’t remember them months later? At FutureMe, you can save your thoughts by writing yourself an email letter to be delivered at a later date, much like those exercise we all had to do in high school and college.

According to Matt and Jay, the two guys who started FutureMe, the website is based on the principle that our memories are less accurate than emails. Publications such as the Boston Globe and the Washington Post have picked up FutureMe, recently LA Times Magazine did a feature story about the website and even Forbes tried to emulate the concept a couple of years ago. However, FutureMe remains the most popular way to communicate with yourself in the future.

The home page conveniently features a form you can fill out to send yourself or someone else an email on a designated future date. You can choose to make your entry private or public but anonymous. When you select public but anonymous, your letter can be read by the other visitors to FutureMe but there will be nothing shown to reveal who you are. The public but anonymous entries collected on FutureMe since its inception as Web Monkey in 2003 are all being gathered in a book called Dear Future Me that will be released this fall. While it is cool to read your own FutureMe mail, reading the letters written by other visitors is really interesting.

The website is simple to use and offers a great service for free. The owners of the website welcome donations and gifts but do not charge for this fun, enlightening email service. If you want to keep track of your favorite dreams and see how far you have come along months or years from now, send yourself an email at FutureMe.

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