Ever Wish for an Email Do-over?

In golf they call it a mulligan when your first shot off the tee is a dud and you get to try again.

Have you ever hit “Send” - launching an email into the ether - and immediately wished for an email mulligan? Sometimes you just realize you need to add or correct something and you don’t want to look unprofessional by sending your message out like scatter shot. Our inboxes are clogged enough already.

Sometimes you realize a split second too late that you have sent your email to the wrong recipient. This is rarely a benign snafu – there is almost always some humiliation attached. Have you ever sent a snarky email about your co-worker to that same co-worker? Maybe even your boss or a client?

And sometimes you just never should have committed that thought to electronic perpetuity. My office mates can tell from down the hall when I’m angry typing. It may be cathartic to tap out my frustrations, but then I allow reason and prudence prevail and hit “delete” – almost always.

Well, now there’s good news (for those of us who use Gmail at least): the “Undo”button.

It’s not easy to find, but this Mashable article gives you step by step instructions on how to enable your “Undo” option. Now if Google could just come up an “Undo” button for that last donut I just ate…