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

Launch Team

Ryan Hoover

Product Hunt

Succinct, clear writing is underrated. Ironically, a book called Brief was posted on Product Hunt a year ago to also help people write more succinctly. 😊

8yr ago

@rrhoover yes

8yr ago

VIPKID

@rrhoover It would be ironic if the book was super long, otherwise it's my understanding it would just be a coincidence

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8yr ago

Povilas Sidaravicius

@rrhoover Especially in academia. I have spent almost an hour writing a specific and short thesis and my lecturer was like: "Not enough words..." O.o

8yr ago

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8yr ago

@levibostian Ditto! It's such a neat extension (one that I'll subtly recommend to co-workers and clients haha) yet Non-devs or people outside this PH thread may be iffy to download. Kudos!

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8yr ago

Safia Abdalla

Brief

Maker

@levibostian Hello Levi! I made this as a toy project and wasn't expecting it to get any traction. If people seem interested in it, I'll fork up the $5 (college student problems :P) to get myself on Chrome's web store and host it there.

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8yr ago

Paul Arterburn

Save This!

If you installed the extension and want to support the developer, you can throw a $1 or 2 at her Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/captainsafia (use your bank account to keep it fee-free).

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8yr ago

Safia Abdalla

Brief

Maker

@parterburn Thanks for the support Paul!

8yr ago

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8yr ago

Ramp

Hunter

I'm a notoriously wordy writer - saw this a few days ago on Safia's twitter and had to share it with the rest of PH! I'm a big fan of Polymail, so I'm not sure how I'll integrate this into my day-to-day life, but it's a great tool nonetheless. Thanks Safia! 📬 💌 📮

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8yr ago

Safia Abdalla

Brief

Maker

@nickabouzeid Thanks for sharing this, Nick! Yeah, I'm not sure that Polymail has an extensions API for this to be added. I used Nylas and that has extensions so that might be where I take this next.

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8yr ago

Nick Abouzeid

Ramp

Hunter

@captainsafia Excited to try out Nylas if you can get it working! 😊

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8yr ago

Brief

Stop yourself from sending wordy, rambling emails

Stop yourself from sending wordy, rambling emails

Brief

Stop yourself from sending wordy, rambling emails

Stop yourself from sending wordy, rambling emails

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