Emailing from the extension

[RichardLitt]

• Select + email segments, metadata, annotations, etc.
• Be able to write comments, framing around snippet.
• Use DOI, paper title, etc for links.
• Populate user's email client to send email.
• Or potentially send email ourselves (if need attachments, etc).

[RichardLitt]

@chrisgervang had a good point:

Look into embedding a real Google Compose interface such that the user can compose an email to a colleague that includes interesting and relevant information. For example, highlighting interesting paragraphs, meta-data, digest information.

The app to facilitates the composition of this email.

https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/

[RichardLitt]

From @adammarblestone:

Also what about the idea of a kind of wrapper that shows the new user what the annotations look like on top of the shared document, even if they don’t have Beagle installed yet? Need to be precise on what people see in this sharing email...

This might also be something that is important to be able to do on non-standard clients like an iPad or something where you don’t have Chrome? People need to be able to view annotations even in the absence of the Extension, using a special wrapper?

[RichardLitt]

I think this is two things.

It is possible for us to send either the text itself or PDF snippets in an email, with annotations attached in some way - this may be as simple as a quote box and an annotation. I think this, combined with some sort of 'You've been invited to view a pdf using beagle' statement makes sense. Since sharing of copyright is fair use, I don't think we'd have any issues with sending over sample text (or even the entire document) .

Regarding iPads and so on - that is part of the proposed web platform. I think having an website // an iframe environment that mimics the Chrome extension without relying on Chrome extension code is important, and possible. A link to that can also be provided.