10 Gmail Chrome Extension Ideas For Your Business !

[1] Inbox Organizer Gmail Chrome Extension

Let’s start with the top most thing that comes to our mind while thinking of improving Gmail experience, to manage it well. The reason is that Gmail is an integral part of almost all of our professional lives and getting the inbox organized is a ‘big thing’ as it implies saved time and effort worth whopping long hours.

Now, what does an inbox organizer Gmail Chrome extension actually do? To put in simplest words, this type of Gmail add on enables you with all conveniences that you wish were built within Gmail itself. Here’s what you can train your inbox organizer Gmail add ons to perform :

[a] Schedule Emails In Advance

The time when you shoot an email often plays a crucial role but it’s not always easy to make yourself available according to such diverse timings for like 50 mails a day. To save you from the struggle, the inbox organizer Gmail add on can schedule and send mails to custom selected recipients at your preferred time.

[b] Read Recipient Tracking 

It’s necessary to constantly monitor which of your mails are being read & how many times and which aren’t opened at all. That way you can constantly keep your mailing strategy up-to-date & can also filter the future recipients accordingly.

[c] Mail Reminders

These extensions shoot auto reminders so you always have the important emails up your radar & are not missed. All you have to do is mark them important as and when the conversation starts getting critical.

[d] Recurring Follow Ups 

Follow ups can be mundane and often missed if relied on memory. On the other hand the missed follow ups also imply giving up on potential opportunities. The inbox organizing extension can automate follow ups at intervals chosen by you.

[e] Email Templates 

Coming up with email templates & mapping them with the relevant leads can be a time draining task in itself. So a dedicated Gmail extension taking up the task ensures auto template creation & selection based on given text pattern recognition.

[2] Action Item Marker Gmail Chrome Extension

Often we share a lot of action items over emails & receive so as well but a lot of times it gets buried under long trails of consecutive messages. That of course takes a direct toll on business opportunities. In such scenarios an action item marking Gmail Chrome extension doubling as a task manager, can ease the struggle. This extension can be planned pretty simply, focusing on two simple functionalities :

1. Saving an email as a task straight on your project management board with relevant integrations.
2. Add timely reminders to ensure all priorities are set right and no deadline is missed.

All you need is to remember to build such a Gmail extension & that extension can remind you of the rest! 

[3] Multi-Account Manager Gmail Chrome Extension

Personal & official - even the school-going kids these days have at least 2 email accounts to handle, leave alone the professionals. However, juggling all those email accounts is almost never easy. All Gmail does is send a push notification and at a glance, figuring out the “from whom-at which inbox-important or not” essentials gets extremely difficult.

With a multi-account managing Gmail Chrome extension you get structured notifications & can perform a preferred action on the mail - without opening Gmail. The top functionalities that can be included are :

1. To support structured push notifications showing the recipient, the email ID where it landed and even subject line while enabling you to even delete it or mark as important at one click.
2. You can enable the extension to show the photos associated with Gmail ID or even the photos you saved as their contact ID.
3. Enabling voice notification you can have the extension read out the email verbally when your hands are not free to click and read.
4. These can be functioned to run in the background even with Chrome closed
5. Brownie points for offline support.

[4] Conversation Reversal Gmail Chrome Extension

Who doesn’t know how confusing long Gmail threads can get! Trying to find that one particular mail that quickly showed up on the notification bar but got lost in a crowd of past mails as you dug in. The more heads associated with a thread, the more are the troubles. A Gmail extension built to reverse a thread and get you the desired email can help you in such a situation! Simply by using CSS to flip a particular conversation pulling up the recent message on top.

Result? More saved minutes and thus, higher productivity !

[5] Meeting Scheduler Gmail Chrome Extension

“Okay..Setting a Zoom call in an hour then?”

“Let’s Google Meet at 8 AM GMT?”

“Skype call from John”

Too many platforms, too many meetings and well, too hard to remember their timings !

You have guessed it right - a dedicated Gmail extension can keep you on top of your meets and make sure you don’t forget about any. How? By :

1. Setting meets straight from an email content.
2. Reminders at preferred intervals.
3. Start a meet with voice instructions.

[6] Signable Legal e-Document Manager Gmail Chrome Extension

Exchanging business documents that require signatures may look like the most ‘convenient’ when done over email - but is it really that ‘easy’? Well, clearly not, if you look at the cybersecurity concerns! But, with a Gmail Chrome extension built to manage such docs requiring to be signed, you can :

1. Directly import signable docs.
2. Shoot reminders to get the doc signed on time.
3. Ensure end-to-end data encryption across the document.
4. Check if the signature is compliant with the legal binding norms.
5. Sending back to the intended recipient following a sender’s review.

[7] Focus Enhancer Gmail Chrome Extension

When was the last time you could do one task at a stretch for a couple of hours? Can not remember, right? That’s a common C-suite problem these days. And like almost every other problem, this too has a tech-based solution.

A Gmail extension to enhance your focus will basically :

1. Lock your inbox for a specified period unless you complete replying to one mail & get reminders of pending mails post completion.
2. Restrict the number of times you can open your inbox so you don’t end up spending blank minutes accumulating to hours just dropping by the bottomless email box.

Your business will thank you for this through visibly higher productivity!

[8] Expressive Visual Element Adding Gmail Chrome Extension

Sometimes, a fun visual element can lighten the mundane corporate mood & a touch of witty humor can totally woo the email recipient. But sadly enough, Gmail hasn’t yet paid complete attention to a full-blown visual element gallery. But a Gmail Chrome extension can fill that gap, expanding the age old emoji set to a cutting edge emoji-GIF-sticker library.

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[9] Attachment Monitoring Gmail Chrome Extension

A Gmail Chrome extension enabling Snapchat functionalities in email attachments : sounds cool? Here’s what exactly an attachment managing extension can do for you :

1. By sending attachments disappearing after a specified time interval.
2. Checked how many times and by which of the recipients have accessed the sent attachments.
3. Unsend attachments in case of choosing the wrong one or hitting on ‘send’ by mistake.

[10] Gmail Shortcut Chrome Extension

Shortcuts work great as a time and effort saver while adding up top efficiency and that’s clearly no secret. But how often do we even use the Gmail shortcuts?

Never is probably your answer.

That is exactly what this shortcut managing Gmail extension is here for - to help you get familiar with the Gmail shortcuts, and even let you create your own, for convenience.