Reader Stephen Wallace just told me about a very useful web utility that will send a text message to anyone for free. "Oh, don’t forget" has a simple web interface where you enter in the phone number to send the text message, the date and time to send it and the text message contents. The date and time provide the ability to schedule sending the text message and can contain simple English phrases like "today 3pm". Here’s a test message I sent myself using Oh Don’t forget:

Stephen credits finding this from Adaptive Path. Thanks Stephen!
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