A Chrome extension that lets you open Google Inbox messages in GMail.
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Make sure you have
git
andnpm
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Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/ronichoudhury/switchboard
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Move into repository directory:
cd switchboard
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Install Node dependencies:
npm i
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Build the extension:
npm run build
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Open the Extensions console in Chrome by visiting
chrome://extensions
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Enable developer mode by activating the checkbox.
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Click the "Load unpacked extension..." button.
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Select
switchboard
's build directory:/path/to/switchboard/build
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Visit https://inbox.google.com, open a message, and look for the gray GMail icon!
I love the approach to email that Google Inbox provides, mainly via its bundles, pinning, and reminders, but it does not provide proper, old-school routing, whereby I could grab a URL pointing to a specific message, which is useful for storing a reference to a message in an external system, such as a GTD setup.
GMail, however, is great at providing message-specific URLs.
This extension adds an "open in GMail" button to each message in Google Inbox. Clicking on it opens GMail in a new tab, from which you can snag the message URL to do with as you please.