Compatibility with other Gmail extensions

[leggett]

Advice on using extensions with Gmail

Ironic as it may be given Simplify Gmail is an extension, I recommend using as few extensions as possible. I also prefer to use extensions that, like Simplify, do NOT require full API access to my email.

You can audit which extensions have access to Gmail by opening the extensions menu (screenshot below) while on Gmail and you can review what has access to your Gmail data under myaccount.google.com/permissions.

Reporting an issue with another extension

If you use an extension and it conflicts with Simplify, please report a new issue from Gmail via (Alt+I / Option+I or the Simplify menu > Report issue). More info at simpl.fyi/support. This will include a system report that will help me in trying to reproduce the issue.

Please include:

• Description of the problem
• Steps to reproduce problem
• A full screen screenshot or screen recording to give maximum context (spam folder or fake messages are fine)
• List of all extensions you have installed for Gmail (screenshot of Extensions menu while on Gmail is great, example below)

This is the Extension menu.
If you open it while on Gmail, it will highlight all the extensions that have some kind of access to Gmail.

Compatibility with other Gmail extensions:

Works as is (yay)

• Clearbit Connect
• Contacts+ for Gmail
• Dropbox
• Gmail POP3 Auto Refresh
• Grammarly
• Inbox When Ready
• Todoist
• Voice In Voice Typing

Simplify does something so it works (it may still have minor issues)

• ActiveInbox
• Awesome Screenshot & Screen Recorder
• Bananatag
• Bitmoji
• Boomerang
• Calendly
• Canned Responses - Tray
• Cooper CRM (added support in v2.2.3)
• Deepl
• FlowCrypt
• Gmail Tabs by cloudHQ
• Gmail Conversation Thread Reversal by cloudHQ
• Gmass
• Gmelius
• Hippo Video
• Hubspot (added support in v2.3.1)
• Inboxy
• Keeping
• Loom
• Mailtrack
• MailTracker
• Merlin AI
• MixMax
• Pause Gmail by cloudHQ
• Resize Gmail Sidebar by cloudHQ
• RightInbox
• Salesforce
• Salesmate CRM
• Simplehuman
• Sort Gmail Inbox by cloudHQ
• Streak
• Trimbox
• Vocal

Not compatible (I don't block them, but I pop up a warning every time you load Gmail that says you should disable SImplify or the other extension)

• Dark Mode - Night Eye (but you can disable for just Gmail)
• Dark Reader (but you can disable for just Gmail)
• Drag
• Free Email Tracker by cloudHQ
• Gmail Dark Mode (by Night Eye)
• GMPlus
• Sales Handy
• Sortd
• Yesware

Maybe ok together, ish? (I do something to sort of support them but still don't think it is a great experience – I need either more testing from someone who uses the extension or some way to let people "use at their own risk")

• None at this time

[leggett]

Added support for RightInbox today. Will go out with v2.4.3.

[leggett]

Look into supporting MightyText for Gmail

[leggett]

Improved some minor visual details with Vocal in v2.5.4

[leggett]

Added warning for Dark Reader (they do not play nicely together but you can disable Dark Reader for just mail.google.com -- no need to uninstall entirely)

[leggett]

Found some issues with Wordtune. Will see if I can address it and will warn users of incompatibility if I can't.

[topperge]

@leggett I noticed that MailTrack is listed to work, but I'm having an issue where all the messages are being bundled together. This is whether or not they're the same email thread... The label generated by mailtrack is: label:mailtrack.io-clicks

I'm wondering if there is an easy way to exclude labels from bundling since in this context it doesn't make sense.

[leggett]

@topperge this list applies to Simplify v2. Your millage will vary with the v3 beta.

I don't have a ton of love for helping track other people opening email. That says, I am working on a way to exclude labels from bundling (one of many musts to get out of beta). Can you hide the label from messages or does that make it less useful?

[ben-foxmoore]

Added warning for Dark Reader (they do not play nicely together but you can disable Dark Reader for just mail.google.com -- no need to uninstall entirely)

I'm struggling to find a way to use Gmail with Simplify's dark/night theme. I'm on Linux, where Chrome appears to ignore the GTK theme [1]. One option to solve this is to use the flag enable-force-dark, but this unfortunately requires a browser restart which isn't very friendly. For this reason, I use Dark Reader - it's main benefit for me is that it's dynamic, so I can disable and re-enable it at any point.

Unfortunately, as you've mentioned - Dark Reader and Simplify don't play nice, but disabling Dark Reader just leaves me with a glaringly bright Gmail while the rest of my tabs are nicely adjusted. Do you think there might be some other way to achieve this? Perhaps a manual toggle for Simplify's own dark theme? Or perhaps enabling it based on Dark Reader's settings?

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=998903

[leggett]

@ben-foxmoore I have plans to revamp dark mode so I can auto-switch with the OS and improve other things. When I dig into this, I plan to also see if I can just detect Dark Reader and play nicely with it.

I'll track this work on #562 but I won't start until I've finished bundles.

[leggett]

I'm adding support for Salesforce and Bananatag