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Issue tracker for Simplify Gmail, a browser extension to simplify Gmail's interface
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[Feature Request] Reply without quoting #718

Open leejoramo-d51 opened 2 years ago

leejoramo-d51 commented 2 years ago

My preferred way to reply to emails is without quoting. I have always assumed the person I am replying to has their email. Would it be possible to prevent quotes from being automatically created? If I want specifically reference something someone said, I will copy that portion into the body of my email as a quote.

Even better, text that I have selected in the original email should appear quoted in my reply. (Which is the way, nearly every email application I used from the late-90's worked.)

BTW thanks so much for Simplify, I have been using the Beta for most of its release, and my subscription just renewed a couple of weeks ago.

leggett commented 1 year ago

So sorry I never replied to this! You've got two suggestions here:

  1. Don't included quoted text in a reply. I'm inclined to not do this. Gmail (and most email apps) hides this during compose and on send so I'm not sure what harm is done by including it. If someone is added to the conversation or a message is forwarded, they will have the context from previous messages. By removing the quoted text, you are breaking that ability for everyone on the thread.

  2. Show the selected text as quoted text at the top of a reply. I've seen this in email apps before and I think this is a reasonable request. How does this typically work? Does it duplicate the quoted text at the top of the thread? Does it leave all the rest of the quoted text alone below the reply?