gmail links don't work on mobile

[michael....@gmail.com]

Has anyone figured out a technique to link to a Gmail email that works on both a desktop browser and an android?

The desktop URL works on the desktop, but when I try to navigate to it on my android things go wonky during the redirect to the mobile browser site.

Thanks!

[Cameron (GQueues Team)]

I have not been able to figure this out. Mobile Gmail doesn't support the regular URL paths that are given in the desktop browser, as far as I can tell. -Cameron

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[john...@gotournz.com]

I "think" I've just found a work around so I can use those links on my Android (Samsung Galaxy Note - ICS). I've nearly driven myself mad over the past two days searching for a solution to this.

For me, it's an absolute die-in-a-ditch must have that my GTD solution allows me to create a task from an email message, and that the task references that email message by way of a link to the message. This is because I want to check my tasks from Android or PC, see that an action is required to be performed with the email message - I can then simply click on the message link, it opens, and I reply. Any system that can't do this, that forces me to go look for the message, I simply won't use - that's CREATING work, not reducing it. 

I like GQueues, but the fact that the HTML 5 mobile tool doesn't offer the above functionality was almost a dealkiller for me. I was just about to walk away from it, and decided to spend a day or two trying find a workaround so that  my GTD system worked on both Android and PC. For that to be possible, the links you talk of in your request must work on both.

Here's the system I have just played with to create GQueues tasks that include a working link to a specific message -  it seems to work, provided you have an internet connnection, or at least, you need to have opened and synched your email on your Android using your web browser within the last few hours.

Try this, on your Android.

1. Make sure you have the GQueues mobile link/tool setup on your Android.

2. Set up a Bookmark on your Android Desktop to your Gmail account.  You're going to use this to access your email.(For my method to work, you can't use Gmail Android app).

3. Open your mail using the Gmail Bookmark - your Android web browser will open, and your mail will appear ( I use Google Chrome for Mobile)

4. Open a message that requires further action. Go to the address bar, and select, and copy the complete address showing in the address bar. This is the message unique id.  It will look something like this. https://mail.google.com/mail/mu/mp/443/#cv/Inbox/13882906aXXXXXX

5. Now go to the GQueues Bookmarklet, and open it. Create a quick task - " Reply to Joe Blogs", then paste the copied message id into the task. Save. You now have a task that contains a link to the email message that requires action.

Now we can check if the email link works on both Android and PC.

Go to your PC, login to GQueues, and open the task, then click on the link to the message. I've only tested this 2 or 3 times today, and it works for me. I tried moving the email message from my email Inbox to another Label/Folder - it stll works.

Test the same on your Android.

Open GQueues Mobile, and navigate your way to the Reply to Joe Bloggs task you created earlier,then click on the link. The message will (should!) open in your Android web browser, and you can reply from there. 

There's no reason why we can't paste multiple messages in the task notes section.

Fingers crossed that this is the answer/workaround I'm looking for. Now I can look at my mail while mobile (I have a tourism business, so this is often) , and create a Task/Action/Project that links to a specific message, and that doesn't require me to log on to my PC later to re-work the entry. 

I was originally converted to  GTD by David Allen's plug in for Outlook, which allowed the used to associate email messages with Actions,Projects etc. With a single click I could view all communication related to a Project.  Unfortunately I don't use Outlook any more - I haven't found any app from any current developer that even comes close to offering this functionality.

Hope this helps..  

On Wednesday, 13 June 2012 02:24:43 UTC+12, Cameron (GQueues) wrote:

I have not been able to figure this out. Mobile Gmail doesn't support the regular URL paths that are given in the desktop browser, as far as I can tell. -Cameron

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:35 PM, <michael....@gmail.com> wrote:

Has anyone figured out a technique to link to a Gmail email that works on both a desktop browser and an android?

The desktop URL works on the desktop, but when I try to navigate to it on my android things go wonky during the redirect to the mobile browser site.

Thanks!

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[Peter Hawkes]

An excellent result that makes mobile use a great deal more productive!

The problem still remains that links to email created on a PC do not display on the Android as the syntax for the URL leading to the email reference number is different. Substituting the  https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/ with https://mail.google.com/mail/mu/mp/18/#cv/Inbox/ and then adding the reference number does then display the message but a little ling winded!! There must be a way of automating this process a little ....

Peter H

[Zoltan]

I have been using this hack for some time. It works pretty well. It actually puts two links into the task notes - one for the desktop version of gmail, and one for mobile. This assumes you use the GQueues bookmarklet on a desktop browswer.

Step 1
Download http://www.gqueues.com/javascripts/gqueuesBookmarklet-min.js

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Step 2
Edit gqueuesBookmarklet-min.js
Change:

    var x=window.location.href+"\r\n"+jQuery("#gqBookNotes").val();

to (add gmail mobile link):
    var x=window.location.href+"\r\n";
    if (x.indexOf("mail.google.com/mail") != -1)
    {
        var url = window.location.href;
        x += url.replace("?shva=1#", "mu/#cv/") + "\r\n";
    }
    x+=jQuery("#gqBookNotes").val();

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Step 3
Edit bookmarklet

Change:
script.src = basePath + "/javascripts/gqueuesBookmarklet-min.js";

To (note that this needs to be some URL where you can upload gqueuesBookmarklet-min.js):
script.src = "http://host.com/path/gqueuesBookmarklet-min.js";

Upload gqueuesBookmarklet-min.js to the URL above (http://host.com/path/gqueuesBookmarklet-min.js)

If Cameron could make the above change to gqueuesBookmarklet-min.js, then there would be no more need for this hack, and everyone could benefit.

Zoltan

On Wednesday, 13 June 2012 00:24:43 UTC+10, Cameron (GQueues) wrote:

I have not been able to figure this out. Mobile Gmail doesn't support the regular URL paths that are given in the desktop browser, as far as I can tell. -Cameron

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:35 PM, <michael....@gmail.com> wrote:

Has anyone figured out a technique to link to a Gmail email that works on both a desktop browser and an android?

The desktop URL works on the desktop, but when I try to navigate to it on my android things go wonky during the redirect to the mobile browser site.

Thanks!

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[Zoltan]

It appears that Google have changed the URL format of their mails so that the stuff I posted about half an hour ago does not work. The following DOES work (changed the code in Step 2):

Step 1
Download http://www.gqueues.com/javascripts/gqueuesBookmarklet-min.js

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Step 2
Edit gqueuesBookmarklet-min.js
Change:
    var x=window.location.href+"\r\n"+jQuery("#gqBookNotes").val();

to (add gmail mobile link):
    var x=window.location.href+"\r\n";

    if (x.indexOf("mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#") != -1)
    {
        var url = window.location.href;
        x += url.replace("u/0/?shva=1#", "mu/#cv/") + "\r\n";
    }

    x+=jQuery("#gqBookNotes").val();

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Step 3
Edit bookmarklet

Change:
script.src = basePath + "/javascripts/gqueuesBookmarklet-min.js";

To (note that this needs to be some URL where you can upload gqueuesBookmarklet-min.js):
script.src = "http://host.com/path/gqueuesBookmarklet-min.js";

Upload gqueuesBookmarklet-min.js to the URL above (http://host.com/path/gqueuesBookmarklet-min.js)

Zoltan

[John Fitzwater]

Merci beaucoup...  :-)

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[michael....@gmail.com]

Thanks for the research on figuring it out!

However, I use the GQueues Chrome Extension rather than the bookmarklet... I'll give the bookmarklet a try though.

Cameron, can GQueues be smart about mobile/desktop browser and modify the mail link URLs automatically? So if it sees a mobile format email from the non-mobile gqueues, it can re-write it to the desktop format url and vice-versa?

--Michael Sheldon

[scoo...@gmail.com]

I have been struggling with this too.  But the following works for now...switch to the gmail basic view https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html in your desktop browser and use the chrome gqueues extension from there.  All links on my android device generated this way seem to work - both the link in the gqueues mobile site and the url in the notes field of the calendar entry.  Of course, you get the basic view in your android browser rather than the mobile, but still loads pretty fast for me.