Send Email Reminders on an iPhone using HTML Codes (Non-Automated)

In this video, I'll show you how I use the html mail codes for the iPhone (and iPad) to send regular reminder emails for client sessions from my mobile devices.
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Hi, everyone. This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll show you how I use the html mail codes for the iPhone (and iPad) to send regular reminder emails for client sessions from my mobile devices.
In my last video, I showed how to send regular client session reminder emails using Gmail's templates. Unfortunately, that all has to be done from a browser since templates aren't a feature in the mobile version of Gmail.
So, I figured out how to do this from the mail app on the iPhone. It takes some doing to set it all up, but after that I actually find it easier and faster than using Gmail templates.
So, basically, I'm taking advantage of 2 things:
1) the "mailto" code that can be inserted into any html on a website that generates an email message when you click on the link. Here's an example of a "mailto" code on a website. Push it and you bring up a new email in your mail client. The other thing I'm taking advantage of is
2) the iOS mail app's ability to turn html into hyperlinks
The mailto code allows you to specify a recipient and a subject line if you use the right syntax. I think you can also get it to populate a message body, but that required too many edits and coding, so I just cut and paste that in. Here is the syntax:
mailto:[e-mail]&subject=This%20is%20the%20subject&cc=[e-mail]&body=This%20is%20the%20body
I've highlighted the important bits. You can see that, since this is html, you can't just leave spaces, you have to specify where the spaces are with a percentage sign 20. If I click on this hyperlink, the mail looks like this with the email address, subject line, cc'd email address and body filled it. For my purposes, I use the following code:
mailto:[e-mail]?subject=Reminder:%20Session%20Tomorrow
I manipulate the code in Evernote since it has an html link editor, but you can use any program that allows you to edit the hyperlink. So, here is what I do:
I create a new email for each client
The recipient is me since this is the template I'm going to use from my mail app.
The subject is some way to identify the client. I use date of session and initials.
Now, I go into Evernote and change the mailto code so that it is specific to this client. Usually, I just have to change the email address. The reason it's important to do this in a program that allows hyperlink edits is that other programs may change the text that is shown, but the code behind it hasn't changed. So, I need to take a look at the code down here and make sure it is correct.
Now I copy and paste this hyperlink into my email.
Underneath that, I paste the body of the email. This is customized for each client because it includes their name and their session time.
Okay -- now I send this email to myself. Once I receive it, I file it in a folder called "Reminder Emails"
That is the set up. Now, every morning, I take a look at my calendar to send out all of my reminder emails for the day. This requires opening the email for each client that I'll meet with the next day, copying the body of the email, clicking on the link -- which voila! brings up a new message with the correct email address and subject line, pasting in the body text, and hitting send. I find this easier even than using templates, so I have begun using this method exclusively.
Let me know what you think! Comments are always appreciated and thanks for watching.
mailto:[e-mail]?subject=This%20is%20the%20subject?cc=[e-mail]?body=This%20is%20the%20body
mailto:[e-mail]?subject=This%20is%20the%20subject&body=This%20is%20the%20body&cc=[e-mail]