What is this actually doing? I.e. are the emails being edited on the server or is the extension storing a set of edits and applying them when you view the edited emails in Gmail in Chrome? Are the original emails still accessible? How?
Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox
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Re: Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox
#52Strange. When I open gmail, I have to give permission. I do that, dismiss the dialog, the page refreshes, and I get the same dialog. Over and over again, I think I've given the app my permission like 10 times. And the buttons aren't appearing in my gmail.
What am I doing wrong?
Re: Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox
#53What is this actually doing? I.e. are the emails being edited on the server or is the extension storing a set of edits and applying them when you view the edited emails in Gmail in Chrome? Are the original emails still accessible? How?
OP, please deliver. It is super important to me that the original emails are preserved somewhere. Is this so?
Re: Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox
#54Strange. When I open gmail, I have to give permission. I do that, dismiss the dialog, the page refreshes, and I get the same dialog. Over and over again, I think I've given the app my permission like 10 times. And the buttons aren't appearing in my gmail. What am I doing wrong?
Hi there - if you're willing to help us debug your issue, shoot us an email at team@trysignal.com and we'll send you some instructions to get that sorted out asap.
Re: Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox
#55What is this actually doing? I.e. are the emails being edited on the server or is the extension storing a set of edits and applying them when you view the edited emails in Gmail in Chrome? Are the original emails still accessible? How?
We are storing the changes you make to an email and then loading those changes back in when you view that email. The original email is never deleted, you can always click the "Restore" button get back to the original.
Re: Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox
#56What is this actually doing? I.e. are the emails being edited on the server or is the extension storing a set of edits and applying them when you view the edited emails in Gmail in Chrome? Are the original emails still accessible? How?
OP, please deliver. It is super important to me that the original emails are preserved somewhere. Is this so?
Not OP, but to answer your question - yes, the original emails are preserved. More info: https://trysignal.com/using-signal/
Re: Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox
#57It's not immediately clear to me what problem this is solving.
Re: Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox
#58I may have missed this, but do you offer any sort of revision control? Don't want to accidentally delete something important.
Re: Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox
#59Offtopic: the feature I lack is to permanently add some info (like tags) so that email is searchable by some keywords, but I guess that's harder to make (and should be done on gmail side).
Re: Show HN: Signal – Edit emails in your Gmail inbox
#60I may have missed this, but do you offer any sort of revision control? Don't want to accidentally delete something important.
We don't have any kind of version control, but we do allow you to flip back and forth between the original and edited emails.
We never delete the original copy of the email so you'll never have to worry about accidentally deleting important content.