The extensions of Simple Gmail Notes have been uploaded to the Chrome Store and Firefox Addon Market for than two weeks. I believe it's time consolidate the code of two sides now, so the project could be more easily maintained in the future.
Simple Gmail Notes – Firefox Addon
One week after the Chrome extension of simple gmail notes was released, I started to plan on porting of extension to Firefox.
There are 2 major incentives for this porting:
- I spent quite a lot of effort to work out the google API for the extension. Most of them are just RESTful HTTP API, which are supposed to work with Firefox extension right alway.
- During the implementation of Google extension, I tried to get way from most Chrome specific API (e.g. chrome sync). So theoretically most code should work with Firefox extension.
Simple Gmail Notes – Chrome Extension
For a long time, I wanted a browser extension that allows me simply add notes to the Gmail. It is because I need some easy way to mark down the comments on the resumes of candidates, Sometimes they would send the resumes across a long time span. Of course I could mark down the notes on evernote, but it's time-consuming and difficult to have an organized list of comments overall candidates, most of which I would not review for the second time.
There was a useful plugin called Notes-For-Gmail. Yet it stopped functioning months ago, and I have no way to contact the author.
Finally I decided my own one, as I really need this. And it seems to be a good chance to learn the Google chrome extension writing as well.