Everything you need to know

DearTomorrowMe is a place to write a letter to your future self. Write it today. Seal it. Pick a date — 6 months, 1 year, 5 years from now. On that day and only that day, it arrives in your inbox.

It is not a journal. It is not a social network. It is not therapy. It is a private letter between who you are right now and who you will become.

We built it for people with something worth saying to their future self — whether they are chasing something, working through something, or simply want to remember exactly who they were at this moment in their life.

DearTomorrowMe is for anyone with something to say to their future self.

People working through something hard. People chasing a goal they are not sure they will reach. People who want to hold themselves accountable. People who want to remember exactly who they were at a specific moment in their life — before everything changed.

You do not need to be in crisis to use it. You just need something worth saying.

When you write your message you are asked for a title, your message, and optionally a short note — a reason, a hope, something you want future you to remember.

You can also attach a video of up to 10 minutes. Sometimes hearing your own voice is more powerful than any written word.

Write as much or as little as you need. There is no word limit. Nobody else will read it.

After you confirm your message, it is sealed. You cannot open it, edit it, or read it until the delivery date arrives.

This is intentional. Your message was written in a specific moment — raw, honest, exactly as you felt. If you could go back and change it, you would clean it up. You would make it neater. The whole point is that future you gets to meet the person who was here, right now, in this exact moment.

On your messages page, sealed letters show a lock icon. The contents are hidden. On the delivery date, the lock lifts and future you can read it.

When you write a message, you can optionally provide a backup email address. This is a second inbox where a copy of the letter will be sent on the delivery date.

It exists in case your primary email address changes, gets deactivated, or becomes unreachable between now and the delivery date. If you are sending a letter 5 years into the future, a lot can change.

The backup email receives the same letter at the same time. You might use a personal email as primary and a long-standing Gmail account as backup.

The next of kin email is a person you trust — a friend, a sibling, a parent — who receives a copy of your letter if you are not around to read it yourself.

Unlike the backup email, this is not about missed deliveries. It is about making sure the letter reaches someone, no matter what. It is the feature nobody else has.

You do not have to tell them. Many people do not. It is a quiet safeguard — something that exists in case the letter matters more than you expected.

Note: DearTomorrowMe is not a legal document service. The next of kin email is a personal safeguard, not a legally binding instrument.

On the paid plan, you can attach a video to your letter. The video can be up to 10 minutes long and up to 200MB. It is stored securely and attached to your letter delivery email as a private link.

Like the written message, the video is sealed and inaccessible until the delivery date. You cannot watch it back after submitting it.

Recording a video is optional, but some people find it more powerful than writing. Future you gets to see your face, hear your voice, and meet the person who was here — and who kept going.

After you write your message and click the confirmation link in your email, your letter is scheduled. On the exact date you chose, it is sent to your inbox (and your backup and next of kin inbox if you provided them).

The letter arrives as an email. It contains everything you wrote — the title, your message, your note to yourself, and a link to your video if you recorded one.

If for any reason the delivery fails due to a failure on our end or our third-party providers, you are entitled to a full refund. See our Refund Policy.