Neat Messages for Gmail is a Chrome Extension that puts plain text emails in a neat container where you can comfortably read them. In the meantime, HTML emails that are designed and have everything looking nice will be left unchanged.

Hello, people! 👋 I was recently frustrated with how the default look of messages in Gmail consists of long lines of text. Where else do you see this? Product Hunt - no, Twitter - nah, Facebook - nope, Medium - nono... Before I went to bed the other day, I fiddled a bit with Gmail in the browser Inspector. I shrunk an annoyingly wide email and ended up with the thing being easier to read. So I created this extension. It watches when you’ll open an email and checks if it’s a plain text one, meaning if it’s *not* already styled by the sender (a.k.a. HTML emails). If it’s just a regular email, it adds the following swag to it: - Maximum width of 510px (about the same as a Tweet) - Centered in the middle of the screen - Border with a slight shadow in sync with Gmail’s design - Font size of 14px with 20px line height (same as a Tweet) with low CSS specificity so that explicit styles can affect the content The extension does *not* change the content itself, only its presentation. HTML emails are pleasant and easy to read because they’re styled. My goal is to make plain text emails a bit like them. I hope it improves your reading experience. I’d like to hear what you think! 🙂

@dodov This is awesome! I was actually working on something similar which transforms gmail threads into a chat like experience.

It really makes reading regular emails easier.

The text width*, font size and line hight are perfect.

*The 10 words per line typography rule is indeed applied, which makes things far more readable.

Pros:

It just works!

Cons:

None

great. works really well!

@jwelch Glad to hear that! 🙌

Neat Messages for Gmail

No more long and annoying lines of text in Gmail

No more long and annoying lines of text in Gmail

Neat Messages for Gmail

No more long and annoying lines of text in Gmail

No more long and annoying lines of text in Gmail

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