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But now that Gmail is getting into providing context for emails (such as flight check-ins), I'd like it if the…",{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"6408025","tehwebguy","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\u002F18 1:00 PM…",{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"6407984","chunky1994","Cool concept, lets see where it'll go!",{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"6408014","mdork","awesome! def like what i see so far!",{"value":103,"source":84,"evidence":104},"Clean interface and useful concept",[105,109],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"6408322","robertnealan","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…",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"6408360","jonperl","Great application! One bug I noticed is that when I mark a message as unread, the subject line \u002F summary text goes back to what it used to be. Maybe you guys could have an empty…",[114,125,140,159,166],{"value":115,"source":84,"evidence":116},"Edits are stored locally or in Firebase, not written back to Gmail, so mobile apps don't show them",[117,121],{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"6409777","Imagenuity","This is the one thing that has kept me from completely switching to Gmail. However, since these edits are not actually written back to the email, but stored locally (even synced…",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"6408744","rcthompson","What is this actually doing? 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Shouldn't it only need access to mail.google.com? Same question for the tabs and browsing activity permission.",{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"6408179","Tyrant505","This turns me off to almost every extension I am curious in trying out.",{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"6410713","Beltiras","Yeah, just what I need. More American corporations with access to my data ......",{"id":156,"by":157,"text":158},"6413232","Sephr","Why not use a local datastore on the user's browser, like IndexedDB? I see no reason at all to install this and send my data to your external datastore when the same can be…",{"value":160,"source":84,"evidence":161},"Branding confusion with Hubspot's Signals product",[162],{"id":163,"by":164,"text":165},"6410192","pain_perdu","There is a HUGE branding problem here. A few weeks ago, Hubspot launched their gmail add-on product called Signals. 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