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Re: Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox

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post #9

I love the idea, but I'm guessing that this extension stores your edits on the local machine you're using at the time? I jump from computer to computer and something like this would only really be helpful for me if my edits followed me around. Possible?

Probably already a thing with Chrome sync?

Re: Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox

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post #9

I love the idea, but I'm guessing that this extension stores your edits on the local machine you're using at the time? I jump from computer to computer and something like this would only really be helpful for me if my edits followed me around. Possible?

Actually, your edits are synced across all your computers where Signal is installed.

Re: Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox

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post #3

I like the idea of re-naming these as a form of mini-notes. But now that Gmail is getting into providing context for emails (such as flight check-ins), I'd like it if the auto-generated emails could also learn based on summaries I provide. Kind of like a filter rule based on what I've done in the past to re-name the email to what I'm looking for.

I love this idea. I'd love it even more if they had an API and I could pull my todo list into my terminal.

One of our goals is to present you the same information on your phones so having the API is definitely part of the plan!

Re: Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox

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post #9

I love the idea, but I'm guessing that this extension stores your edits on the local machine you're using at the time? I jump from computer to computer and something like this would only really be helpful for me if my edits followed me around. Possible?

Actually, your edits are synced across all your computers where Signal is installed.

What data store are you using then?

Re: Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox

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post #15

Why does it need to access my data on all websites? Shouldn't it only need access to mail.google.com? Same question for the tabs and browsing activity permission.

Good catch - we're updating the extension manifest file to limit permissions. Thanks!
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