Olive Juice

Don’t pretend you’re omitted from this happenstance. You’re writing an email including a recent design comp, or partnership agreement, or screenshot, or family photo, what have you. You’re detailing the contents of said-attachment, excited and anxious to finish the mailer and get to your next to-do of the day. You remind yourself, mid-writing, “Don’t forget to attach it before clicking send”, and your mind responds “C’mon, I won’t, give me more credit than that”. Finally you finish the last sentence, type “Regards, Best, Your Schnookems, Sincerely” and your name. And send.

Ah! Forgot the attachment. Forehead slap (repeat thrice). You thence compose a new one-liner email stating “Sorry, forgot to attach.” and send your file, as the previously excited productive feeling turns to shame and remorse.

Alas, GMail saved me from such a fiasco this afternoon, as it will many more in the future, with it’s new feature so appropriately called “Forgotten Attachment Detector”.

Dear GMail Engineers and Inventors - Thank you kindly for this feature.

Regards, Yours Forever Truly, Sara