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Gmail Snooze with Apps Script

50 points by abraham 15y ago

dreeves 15y ago
App Script looks nice. Does anyone who's been hacking with it know if it should be easy to implement these other features I've been wanting: Re-Ping: Add an additional field when composing an email that causes the email you're sending to appear in your own inbox in a given number of days if there's been no reply. (It prompts you to re-ping the person if they don't respond.) Auto-expire: Type “eN” and the message will be automatically archived in N days. This is roughly the inverse of Snooze. Alarm clocks sometimes call this a Sleep feature where you can have the radio play for a certain amount of time and then automatically turn off. Here, if you get an email about some event in a couple weeks you can say “auto-expire 14” and it will stay in your inbox for 2 weeks, and then silently, automatically go away. It’s not that it takes much more time to clean up no-longer-relevant emails from your inbox once in a while. But when you get the email is when it has your attention. If you decide to leave it in your inbox you might as well schedule the archiving you’ll have to do in a couple weeks anyway. More about the above features (plus Snooze) here: http://messymatters.com/email http://messymatters.com/email
- cdcarter 15y ago
  Auto-expire should be very easy, it's fairly similar behavior to snooze. Re-ping might be a few more minutes work, but app script does expose every thing necessary for these. The only problem is that GAS can be very very slow.
kwijibob 15y ago
I've been waiting for this feature for years. I hope they fully integrate it. Great name.
tectonic 15y ago
App Script just sort of showed up one day. How long have they been working on this?
- abraham 15y ago
  Early 2009 http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/08/launched-google-apps-script.html http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/08/launched-google...
JimmyL 15y ago
For a similar (and email provider-agnostic) result, check out http://followup.cc http://followup.cc - it runs my life, and is the first service in which I've outgrown the free tier and been excited to pay for more access to.
vrikhter 15y ago
I'm personally a big fan of http://www.boomeranggmail.com/ http://www.boomeranggmail.com/
- ditojim 15y ago
  boomerang is going to start charging a pretty hefty subscription fee ($5/um personal and $15/u/m business). this script is well timed.
  - vrikhter 15y ago
    They already did and I was very happy to pay for the personal account. I get tremendous value from them.
    - ditojim 15y ago
      we are a 20 user organization. at $180/y/person, that's $3,600/year to have boomerang for my organization. google apps costs us $1,000/yr at $50/y/person..
      - moah 15y ago
        We do offer group pricing for companies with more than 5 users. All you have to do is email us at sales at baydin.
        ditojim 15y ago
        why not publish group pricing on your website?
ez77 15y ago
As usual, HN teaches me about stuff I never heard about. Do you guys regularly use App Script for your projects?

50 points by abraham 15y ago

App Script looks nice. Does anyone who's been hacking with it know if it should be easy to implement these other features I've been wanting: Re-Ping: Add an additional field when composing an email that causes the email you're sending to appear in your own inbox in a given number of days if there's been no reply. (It prompts you to re-ping the person if they don't respond.) Auto-expire: Type “eN” and the message will be automatically archived in N days. This is roughly the inverse of Snooze. Alarm clocks sometimes call this a Sleep feature where you can have the radio play for a certain amount of time and then automatically turn off. Here, if you get an email about some event in a couple weeks you can say “auto-expire 14” and it will stay in your inbox for 2 weeks, and then silently, automatically go away. It’s not that it takes much more time to clean up no-longer-relevant emails from your inbox once in a while. But when you get the email is when it has your attention. If you decide to leave it in your inbox you might as well schedule the archiving you’ll have to do in a couple weeks anyway. More about the above features (plus Snooze) here: http://messymatters.com/email http://messymatters.com/email

cdcarter 15y ago
Auto-expire should be very easy, it's fairly similar behavior to snooze. Re-ping might be a few more minutes work, but app script does expose every thing necessary for these. The only problem is that GAS can be very very slow.

kwijibob 15y ago

I've been waiting for this feature for years. I hope they fully integrate it. Great name.

tectonic 15y ago

App Script just sort of showed up one day. How long have they been working on this?

abraham 15y ago
Early 2009 http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/08/launched-google-apps-script.html http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/08/launched-google...

JimmyL 15y ago

For a similar (and email provider-agnostic) result, check out http://followup.cc http://followup.cc - it runs my life, and is the first service in which I've outgrown the free tier and been excited to pay for more access to.

vrikhter 15y ago

I'm personally a big fan of http://www.boomeranggmail.com/ http://www.boomeranggmail.com/

ditojim 15y ago
boomerang is going to start charging a pretty hefty subscription fee ($5/um personal and $15/u/m business). this script is well timed.
- vrikhter 15y ago
  They already did and I was very happy to pay for the personal account. I get tremendous value from them.
  - ditojim 15y ago
    we are a 20 user organization. at $180/y/person, that's $3,600/year to have boomerang for my organization. google apps costs us $1,000/yr at $50/y/person..
    - moah 15y ago
      We do offer group pricing for companies with more than 5 users. All you have to do is email us at sales at baydin.
      - ditojim 15y ago
        why not publish group pricing on your website?

ez77 15y ago

As usual, HN teaches me about stuff I never heard about. Do you guys regularly use App Script for your projects?