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! 🙂