leggett
commented
5 years ago Thanks for all your ideas and such a detailed description of each one.
Hide snoozed text I agree the snoozed text is pretty loud. I'm still thinking about what exactly I want to do because I do think it is helpful to know why it has returned to the inbox (Inbox did this too though it wasn't as loud).
Email to self Changing "me" to "Reminder" would only work in english. More troubling, you would only want to do that on emails sent from you to you. And I can't tell to whom the message is addressed in the inbox.
Calendar event notification This is easier to do across for english only without accidentally messing up other languages (as I'm not manually adding words, I'm only removing them). But again, I suspect this would not be expected for events that you didn't create as a reminder for just yourself. So I'm not sure it is a wise change.
Draft in inbox = reminder This might work as I wouldn't do it on drafts that were attached on other threads. But it would be a lot of work to actually create these no? You would have to draft an email, go to your drafts, select the email, and move it to your inbox. If you could do all that from the compose mole (even via the "Add label" under the overflow button in the composer), I'd be more inclined to make that change. But you can't... or can you...
t keyboard shortcut I've looked at App Scripts... my understanding is I can't bundle that with the extension and the user have to add that separately. Is that right?
melissachang
freste
I don't know if you've tried any of the workarounds for Reminders in gmail. I've been experimenting with them. I think with a little help from this extension, Reminders could look good.
Hide Snoozed text
I just want reminders in one place like Inbox. I don't need bright bold orange letters telling me how long something's been snoozed. The extension could change "Snoozed 14 hours ago" to the normal date/time.
Email to self
This looks pretty good, no changes needed. Changing "me" to "Reminder" could be nice, for consistency with the changes below.
Calender event
One workaround is to make a reminders calendar and create calendar events with email notifications.
FYI I use this when creating a reminder from mobile that is either:
The problem is, there's a lot of noise. This is what a reminder "Test" looks like:
All I want is the word "Test"!
This extension could do something like "If this is a Google Calender email with reminder in the subject, replace "Google Calendar" with "Reminder" and remove noise from snippet."
Draft
If I want an editable reminder, I create a draft email and put it in my inbox.
The extension would detect "If a draft is in inbox, change red "Draft" to gray "Reminder".
t keyboard shortcut
This is the crème de la crème change. Extension maps "t" to: Create draft, move to inbox. Voilà, you now have editable reminders. The extension would have to call gmail API, but to me it's worth it.
If you're ok with any of these, I'm happy to try to write a PR.