Browser Pane

Jorge

Jay Ive found a couple of issues.
When I open an attachment in an email inside the email window (say a .ppt or .xlsx file) it opens the browser version to visualize it, but also opens the actual desktop app to see the document. No biggie. But the problem is that when you try to go back from the document browser viewer to the email that triggerred it you cant. The pane just keeps refreshing to the document viewer and never goes back to the email content The only way Ive found to recover from this is to delete the pane altogether and restore the board from the saved default.

ChrisJ

Jorge Jorge
@Jay , I have also noticed the behavior that Jorge has reported.

Jorge

Jay Same things happens when it is not an attachmen tin the email but a link to another web site, the pane gets stuck in the destination web site and never lets you back out to the email.

Also restoring the default view is not enough… you have to jump out of the board and back for the restored default view to become effective.

It is now functional but still to quirky to use productively. You need to be able to jump to links inside an email and back to the email easily. My suggestion is open the links just in an external browser window not in the browser pane. Its too much hassle and way too slow to be useful to open links or attachments inside the same internal browser pane, and it doesnt help functionaly anyway. The external browser functionality works better for that. I would leave the internal browser pane with just the original mail site and any link from inside that should open in an external browser , or offer a menu to ask (open in this pane or in an external browser).

Jay

The latest update should fix the link opening issue. If they would normally open in a new tab/window they’ll open the external browser, otherwise they navigate the browser pane. And like in a normal browser you can hold Cmd on Mac or Ctrl on Windows and click to open in the browser.

How do you feel about that behavior now?

ChrisJ

Jay, it’s working much better now. 👍🏾

christophe

Jay

Jay
On this filter (from:“{from}” subject:“{subject}”), would it be possible to possibly add a date parameter, and I would even say a time parameter (even if this last point does not seem possible to me).
I explain why.
I posted a job offer, all the candidates respond to me through a platform, which automatically sends me an email, with the same sender name and the same subject.
Currently, I have received around fifteen applications, of which when I click on the link, it opens the 15 email proposals.
With the additional date condition, this would at least limit emails sent on the same day.
I don’t know what other users think?
THANKS

Jay

christophe Yes, that’s a good idea! Dates are a bit harder though, because it can only parse the displayed date in Outlook, and it will need to handle parsing many languages to work correctly for everyone. So I have it on my todo list to try that, but it’s a bit of a project to be able to confidently parse dates correctly.

Jay

The Browser Pane is now live! Thank you to everyone who helped test it! And if you haven’t tried it yet because you’re not using the beta, now you can 🙂

https://legendapp.com/blog/browser-pane/

And please keep the feedback coming on this! I’d like to add more plugins to improve your workflows with other websites/apps, so let me know if there’s any more plugins you’d like to see.

christophe

I think there is a small problem.
When updating to the stable version (I think it’s the same thing in the beta version), it’s impossible to open an email as you can see in the screenshot below.

Jay

christophe Can you check the Browser section of the settings? I think “Open browser plugin links in Browser pane” is disabled? You’ll want that enabled to open emails in the Browser Pane. With that disabled it’s falling back to trying to use the old legacy Email plugin which doesn’t work anymore. I’ll release an update to stop that fallback.

christophe

I did this, it works, but for me it is not the expected behavior.
Indeed, I lose the inbox, I have to select the outlook email again to return to the original state.
That doesn’t seem logical to me.
It is absolutely necessary when you click on the email link that it opens the browser in another window, not on the inbox window.

christophe

No news of updates for almost a month and a half, this much-requested functionality being unusable.
I thought the priority was fixing minor bugs, which are still very numerous, and make use so painful at times.
Sorry, I’m giving my feelings.

wecanseeformiles

Jay I’d be in favour with the browser pane being a persistent sidebar, I think. If it wa a persistent sidebar in each Board, I’d use it to switch between Shortwave, gmail and ai.GPT. But if I was switching between these would I be maintaining browser state in each of them?

Jay

Sorry christophe! I will try to fix this soon. I think you’re right that opening in the pane is less than ideal. I’m trying to think through all of the use cases and find the best solution, and you’re right that this should be a priority.

christophe

Jay
Most of the emails saved in Legend via Mailbird do not open. It is really difficult to use, while I make heavy use of emails in Legend.
Please tell us that this panel will be able to undergo improvements soon to solve the problem.
Thanks

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