Brief

Stop yourself from sending wordy, rambling emails

8 followers

Stop yourself from sending wordy, rambling emails

8 followers

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Long emails are no fun to read or write. Brief is a Chrome extension that adds a word counter to the compose and reply views in Gmail and disables sending if an email is longer than 125 words. Need to send something longer than 125 words? Just triple-click the send button!

Launch tags:Chrome Extensions•Email•Productivity

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Great work 👏 Would love to see a 'max words per paragraph' count too. Nothing worse than a block of text in an email either!

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9yr ago

Acrossio

Simple and effective. Thnx. I would like to have a quick "turn off" feature, so that I can exclude my current email from when trully needed.

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9yr ago

◯˚GitStart

Like the idea of this. I also used Hemingway to help shorten writing, and in emails I took the http://five.sentenc.es pledge to write no more than five sentences per email :)

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9yr ago

Oh hurray, another Chrome-only product. Welcome to 1996 (refer to Internet Explorer)

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9yr ago

Warp

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@jasonology What browser/email service are you using Jason? I've considered making a Nylas extension and perhaps a Firefox extension.

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9yr ago

Dabble me

@captainsafia great little project that scratched your own itch. Chrome is by far the best browser to build for given that it's 50%+ of the market (http://gs.statcounter.com/); unless it's purely because it piques your interest. Building something like this across browsers is just a distraction.

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9yr ago

Warp

Maker

@parterburn Chrome's got the biggest market share for sure (and also the best developer experience around extensions). Once I've got a nice feature set on Brief for Chrome, I'd like to bring it to Nylas, which is the desktop email client that I used. Scratching my own itch mostly! :P

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9yr ago

@captainsafia I use iCloud, gmail, yahoo and office365 and use Safari, Firefox, Opera and iCab

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9yr ago