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by dbuxton 663 days ago
This was one of my favorite features of Google Inbox (RIP). Does anyone know of a good browser extension that can reproduce this feature for GMail? Preferably one that just works with localstorage rather than forcing you to put your notes in some third-party service...
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It'd be more clever to store the notes as replies to your own address, connected to the email; and have the extension see them and render them differently (the extension can store the notes mails with a particular keyword/GMail label). Alternatively they can be draft replies, so you can edit the notes, but that might pollute your Drafts folder.

An advantage of the "reply-to-self" is that the notes would be stored in GMail itself and are viewable on all your devices, including ones without this hypothetical extension.

I guess the extension can also emulate an editing feature by deleting the old version of the "note" email and creating a new one..

Simple Gmail Notes works well. Glad to see FM adopting this feature - so useful for summarizing tasks.