Set Google reminders instead of send emails to self?

boukestam / inbox-in-gmail

Web extension that adds features of Google Inbox to Gmail

MIT License

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Set Google reminders instead of send emails to self? #57

Open theRealPadster opened 5 years ago

theRealPadster commented 5 years ago

Is it possible to somehow hook into Google Reminders and set native reminders instead of emails to yourself? I don't want to clutter up my inbox with self-emails, but I always loved using Inbox as an easy way to manage my reminders.

russelldc commented 5 years ago

@theRealPadster If you're talking about the native reminders in Google Calendar (one of the three options when creating an event: Event, Reminder, Task)... this is unlikely, and probably prohibitively difficult.

I just tried creating one of those reminders from the Calendar app, and they just don't show up in Gmail like they did in Inbox 😢 That means someone would need to implement both creating reminders and retrieving them on time.

theRealPadster commented 5 years ago

I mean the Google Assistant ones, but they're probably the same? And yeah, that's a good point, you would have to rewrite the entire reminder functionality, retrieving on time, and writing, since it's not in Gmail to begin with :/