Your inbox,
a little clearer.
Ask about your Gmail, turn a thread into a summary, prepare a reply and check your calendar. Help with the next step, right beside your inbox.
Interactive design preview with sample data. Inbox marks and automatic sender learning are concepts, not features in the current extension.
A preview of a more readable inbox.
This design concept shows priority, reply and category marks. Hover any mark to explore it. Automatic inbox classification is not included in the early-access release.
How urgent it is
Three levels, drawn as a chevron. A thread that needs you today is visible from the other end of the list without reading a word of it.
Whether it is waiting on you
A reply arrow when the thread needs something back from you, and a small dash when it does not. Most of an inbox turns out to be the dash.
What it is about
Every thread is filed into one of six categories, so you know the subject of an email before you read its subject line.
Priority is a shape
before it is a colour.
Two chevrons up, one up, one down. The level survives a colour-blind eye, a dark theme and a greyscale print. Colour only confirms what the shape already said.
The reply arrow marks a thread waiting on you. When nothing is owed, a five-pixel hairline takes its place, so every subject in the column still starts on the same vertical line.
Six things a thread turns out to be about.
Each one is a single glyph drawn on the same 16 pixel grid and the same 1.5 pixel stroke as Gmail's own icons, so a marked row still looks like a Gmail row.
What the panel does with the thread you opened.
It knows your week,
not just your mail.
Connect Google Calendar separately to check events and availability. Try the sample week below; it uses fictional events and does not access your account.
Three available times in this example:
Pick one and Threadly writes the reply that proposes it.
What it reads to do that
Your real availability, so a proposed time is one you can actually take.
A future idea for working with documents. Drive access is not included in this release.
A future idea for contact context. Google Contacts access is not included in this release.
A future idea for connecting follow-ups. Google Tasks access is not included in this release.
Some of it is easier said than typed.
In the extension, browser dictation puts your words into the input for review. The example below plays a scripted conversation and never records your microphone.
- Ask about a thread without taking your hands off what you were doing.
- Have a long thread read back to you instead of scrolling it.
- Dictate the reply, then read it properly before it goes anywhere.
“What did they say about the indemnity cap?”
Counsel want it at six months of fees. Your last position was twelve. Finance has only signed off on the payment terms, not the cap.
Press the mic to hear that run on the Hartley & Vance thread.
You are the one
who sends.
Threadly writes; you decide. Every mark, every summary and every draft is a suggestion sitting in front of you, and none of it moves until you move it.
Threadly drafts
It reads the thread, works out what is actually being asked, and writes a reply in your voice.
Written by ThreadlyYou edit it
Change a line, change the tone, or throw the whole thing away. This box is live, so try it.
You send it
Sending happens in Gmail's own compose window, on Gmail's own button. Threadly hands over the words and stops.
You can change the marks in this design preview. Automatic marks and learning your sender preferences are not part of the current extension.
What it deliberately does not do.
It keeps Gmail's row height
Forty pixels, unchanged. Both slots are fixed width, so nothing below shifts when a mark appears and your muscle memory for the list survives.
It follows Gmail's theme
No switch of its own. Threadly reads the theme you already chose. The priority colours move to their dark values for contrast; the chevron shapes do not change.
It adds no new place to look
Two slots in a row you already scan, and one panel in the space Gmail already reserves for add-ons. There is nowhere new to check.
This page follows your theme the same way. Switch it and watch the priority colours move while the shapes hold.
Add it, then open Gmail.
Install the early-access extension, open Gmail and sign in with Google. Google access currently requires an approved test account. Relevant context is processed by Threadly and its AI service when you ask for help.
Desktop early access. Public Google signup and store distribution are not yet available.