Hide My Email for Gmail™

Hide My Email for Gmail™

Hide your emails in Gmail™ to focus and get in the flow. Unhide them whenever you're ready.

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What is Hide My Email for Gmail™?
Hide My Email for Gmail™ is a Chrome extension that allows you to hide your emails in Gmail™, enabling you to focus and do deep work. You can easily unhide them when you're ready to view your inbox again.
Merlin
Stats
Users: 96 ▲ 4
Rating: 4.33 (6)
Version: 2.3 (Last updated: 2023-01-05)
Creation date: 2021-02-02
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 52.17K
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Summary

Now you can hide your emails in Gmail™ whenever you want so you can get in the flow and do more deep work.

Overview

After you open Gmail™, click the "Hide emails" button to hide your messages. You'll still be able to search Gmail™ and use it as a reference, just without all your emails appearing and distracting you.

When you're ready to view your the emails in your inbox again, just click "Show emails".

This extension only works if you use the Gmail™ website on chrome. It doesn't work if you're using the Gmail™ desktop app.

View the code

https://github.com/mthurmond/hide-my-email-for-gmail

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User reviews
Extension doesn't work - I am using Google Chrome Browser
by Chris Kit Chris Kit, 2024-05-02

Does not work anymore
by Erban Ku Erban Ku, 2024-04-23

It works really well! I love it! Thanks! (It would be cool to be able to enable/disable it with a keybaord shortcut)
by Pietro Meloni Pietro Meloni, 2022-03-26
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Safety
Risk impact

Hide My Email for Gmail™ is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Hide My Email for Gmail™ has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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