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

#41

Is the original email accessible somewhere after I create my edited version?

Of course! Once you edit the email you can click on the 'Restore' button (visible inside the email) to display the original and toggle to your changes again by clicking 'Revert'

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

#43
post #41

Is the original email accessible somewhere after I create my edited version?

Of course! Once you edit the email you can click on the 'Restore' button (visible inside the email) to display the original and toggle to your changes again by clicking 'Revert'

Having it show on hover could be convenient I think.

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

#44

As an initial concept it's interesting but not very useful for most people in it's current state as it ultimately requires me to spend more time in my inbox. I think the real potential is in your "Coming Soon" feature, where it will hopefully be able to automatically figure out the best subject lines for me and save me time in the long run. Ultimately, it'd be great if it could decipher whether or not the email can b…

The button concept you describe is very interesting - we have been playing around with NLP for extracting actionable items from email, but we want to make sure it’s accurate before we launch any features that rely on it. Thanks for the feedback on the website, we’re definitely be changing it up in the coming weeks.

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

#47
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.

This is such a great idea. Like if you could somehow turn the massive emails chocked full of garbage from airlines into something that just says: MCO > JFK 9/18 1:00 PM EFZG94

... and that's why i use tripit

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

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post #39

This is a fantastic concept, but I will never use it because I don't use Chrome and I don't like the idea of my inbox being different on each device I use. I'll just wait for Google to either ripoff the idea or (hopefully) acquihire the company and integrate it into Gmail itself. Really the idea that the message preview is the FIRST two lines is comically absurd, especially for a company like Google. It's actually am…

We're actually testing Signal on Safari/FF as the majority of the codebase is the same. They should be out in the coming weeks.
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