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Minimalist Gmail by Matt Constantine
- chadgeidel 17y agoHas anyone seen this same work applied to Google Reader? There's quite a large header that takes up a lot of space on my netbook screen. I didn't see anything on the zenhabits.com site after a quick search either. Maybe I just need to start tinkering...
- sunburnt 17y agohttp://helvetireader.com/ http://helvetireader.com/
- chadgeidel 17y agoThanks - I'll check that out when I get home.
- arnorhs 17y agoAnd also for maps.google.com, the interface is way too big in my opinion.
- greyman 17y agoI like the fact that it is possible to switch off/on individual parts of the website (link in the upper-right corner). It would be cool if someone came up with a general solution applicable to all websites.
- Torn 17y agoFor a case-by-case basis, check out the Printliminator -- really neat use of JS & CSS to hide pesky elements http://css-tricks.com/examples/ThePrintliminator/ http://css-tricks.com/examples/ThePrintliminator/ Now if this could be scripted with greasemonkey! Imagine getting rid of a few elements, then hitting 'save' in the plugin -- any subsequent visits to the page would apply the relevant css.
- srt19170 17y agohttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/737 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/737
- percept 17y agoYouTube would be nice. I'm using a Greasemonkey script (http://pastie.org/674946 http://pastie.org/674946) but it requires some management to keep up with changes.
- unalone 17y agoQuietube? http://quietube.com/ http://quietube.com/
- rokhayakebe 17y agoVery nice application. I have been looking for something like this for quite a while now.
- jonnycowboy 17y agogreat link/look, just wish it was available in a more general-purpose form (ie not a firefox tool)
- scottjackson 17y agoIt looks like the guts of what Matt Constantine put into the Firefox add-on is covered by the userscripts mentioned here: http://zenhabits.net/2009/09/minimalist-gmail-how-to-get-rid-of-the-non-essentials/ http://zenhabits.net/2009/09/minimalist-gmail-how-to-get-rid... I'd guess that the Zen Habits article came first and then the Firefox extension was made for an easy one-click installation. Edit: I'm having trouble getting those userscripts to run in my Gmail Fluid app. Maybe there's some Greasemonkey-specific stuff going on in there...
- spudlyo 17y agoMy minimalist gmail interface is called "pine", which I believe is still considered to be the reference IMAP client implementation. If I were have to make this decision today, I might use something more powerful and extensible like "mutt", but for me pine is just fine. I started using it again a year back or so when Mail.app became too slow for me to use on some giant mailboxes I have. Deleting 5k messages from an IMAP folder in pine takes maybe 5-10 seconds. Try doing that in Mail.app. I found my email productivity went way up after switching, so I ended up using it exclusively, despite the ribbing my co-workers give me for using prehistoric email tools.
- RK 17y agoAlpine is UW's successor to Pine: http://www.washington.edu/alpine/ http://www.washington.edu/alpine/
- slmbrhrt 17y agoNo mention of Helvetimail (http://www.josefrichter.com/helvetimail/ http://www.josefrichter.com/helvetimail/) yet?
- Poleris 17y agoI just installed it and the largest problem I'm having is with access to search. Hitting '/' no longer focuses the search box and hitting the arrow is cumbersome. Anyone have a workaround aside from enabling the clunky header?
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- brunoc 17y agoJust a heads up, for some reason it didn't work too too well in Firefox 3.0.x; I didn't investigate further. It's fine in the latest 3.5 though.
- nkurz 17y agoDitto for 2.0.0.3 --- installed fine without complaint, but didn't seem to have any effect on viewing.
- Chirag 17y agoThis makes Gmail, what is should have been.simple and Just Email App. +1
- euroclydon 17y agoAnyone know what their chat status is while chat is hidden?
- heyitsnick 17y agoIf this is greasemonkey script, anyone tried it with Chrome?
- barrkel 17y agoThis removes many of the features I use regularly. Generally the only reason I use the web interface is to search, to mark items read, and to mark all those junk messages which my desktop email client already classified as junk. So this removes 66% or more of the features I actually use.
- greyman 17y agoBut you can select what to hide and what not (link in the upper right corner).