Can I use siri to automate sending an email later?

[brsboarder]

I have an particular email in a template folder. Every month, I have to send it out multiple times, to different people. Usually my workflow is at the beginning of the month, to click the email, click send later, type the name of the person, then hit send later, and click the time. This seems like something I should be able to automate with siri. Ideally, I'd like to be able to say hey siri "send email y to John at 4pm on June 3rd, Mike at 3pm on June 5th etc" is there any way to easily do this? Otherwise its a pia to set up 30+ times each month. Basically its an email that links to an evaluation that someone has to fill out.

 

[tragicwinding]

You're absolutely right! Automating this process would be a huge time saver. While Siri alone might not be able to handle this task directly, the good news is that you can use Siri in combination with the Shortcuts app to create an automated process for sending these emails.
Here's how you can do it:

1. Create a shortcut in the Shortcuts app that sends the email (read more at PC mag).
2. Set up the shortcut to run automatically at a specific time of day, or upon triggering certain events. This can be done using the Automation feature in the Shortcuts app.
3. Link Siri to the shortcut. Once your shortcut is created, you can run it simply by saying "Hey Siri," followed by the name of the shortcut (see this article at Apple's website).

The downside here is that currently, Siri cannot directly interact with email templates or schedule emails for later. However, you should be able to work around this by manually inputting the details of each email into the shortcut when you create it.
I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.