waxlamp / switchboard

A Chrome extension for Google Inbox to open a message in GMail

switchboard

A Chrome extension that lets you open Google Inbox messages in GMail.

Build instructions

1. Make sure you have git and npm installed.

2. Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/ronichoudhury/switchboard.

3. Move into repository directory: cd switchboard.

4. Install Node dependencies: npm i.

5. Build the extension: npm run build.

6. Open the Extensions console in Chrome by visiting chrome://extensions.

7. Enable developer mode by activating the checkbox.

8. Click the "Load unpacked extension..." button.

9. Select switchboard's build directory: /path/to/switchboard/build.

10. Visit https://inbox.google.com, open a message, and look for the gray GMail icon!

Why?

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.