One problem I have with essentially all email clients I’ve used other than pine is that there is no way to guarantee that I will only look at my inbox when I explicitly choose to. I like to do this so that in the middle of working I can compose and send email without being distracted by new email that I may have gotten.
Now this is possible with gmail, too! Just make a bookmark to this url:
http://gmail.google.com/gmail?view=page&name=compose&cmid=0&fs=1&tearoff=1
If you are logged into gmail, going to this address will bring up a compose form. You can compose, spell check, and send email without going back to the main menu and inbox. If you put the bookmark in your bookmarks bar, then you’ve created yourself a little compose button.
I’m brilliant!
update: It doesn’t work anymore. Gmail has changed the code, and I haven’t gotten around to figuring out the new url myself (last time I farmed it from Gmailto, http://gu.st/code/Gmailto, which has not yet been updated for the new url).
another update: Thanks to gCount, here is the current url to use:
http://gmail.google.com/gmail?view=cm&cmid=0&fs=1&tearoff=1
another update:
Drag this link to your bookmarks bar
another update:
Drag this link to your bookmarks bar
Any chance of an update to the gmailit bookmarklet?
the current one works just fine… there was some messed up html in that post though, from when i switched from blosxom. i fixed it now.
what is a correct compose url with attachments?
what do you mean by attachments?
what about filling out the to field or the subject field?
i’m trying to hack the mailto: link with registry entries only. i don’t want to install gmail notifier.
yes, you’re a genius.
an excelent question. i tried a few things and coudln’t figure it out. maybe in the future i’ll have more time. in the meantime, i came accross this great collection of gmail tips:
http://www.g04.com/misc/GmailTipsComplete.html
It’s very cool that Google seems to have noticed this and made the process easier.
Was looking for this, just wanted to come and say thanks.
Another thing would be if you use Firefox to add a ‘keyword’ to the bookmark and that way if you press some button the compose button will open automatically.