Gmail compose button

30 June 2004 - 7 comments

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

~~compose~~

another update:

Drag this link to your bookmarks bar

compose