Block address shortcut

[xarg]

Currently the "mark as spam" shortcut works as expected with !, however Gmail does not have a native "block address" shortcut as shown in the screenshot below. It would be amazing to have this shortcut to permanently block an email address.

As a bonus (probably beyond the scope of Simplify), I know that Superhuman has a block domain shortcut which creates a filter on the entire domain rather than a specific address which is useful too.

I'm willing to pay extra to get the block keyboard shortcut faster, I'm already on a payed plan. Let me know if it's possible. Thank you!

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[leggett]

Makes sense... I've got plans for an action menu like Superhuman where you can type in actions. Can add long-tail things like "block domain" which steps through creating the filter.

For a keyboard shortcut to block this sender... what's a good shortcut? Maybe @ since it is between ! (report spam) and # (delete)? Both of those are kind of jank shortcuts though.

Should it also report as spam?

[xarg]

Makes sense... I've got plans for an action menu like Superhuman where you can type in actions. Can add long-tail things like "block domain" which steps through creating the filter.

Great news!

For a keyboard shortcut to block this sender... what's a good shortcut? Maybe @ since it is between ! (report spam) and # (delete)?

@ good choice if it's not used. There will be a confirmation anyway.

Both of those are kind of jank shortcuts though.

IMO, it's better than nothing.

Should it also report as spam?

Yes, I'd say it should + unsubscribe (ideally) so the domain doesn't get even worse reputation if they actually took some time to implement the unsubscribe function.

[leggett]

Ok, I tried to add this and forgot about a major blocker to adding these kinds of keyboard shortcuts.

Brief background:

• Most of Simplify's keyboard shortcuts work by simulating a click on the corresponding button in the interface
• The browser only lets you do this as an extension when the user interacted with the app in some way (e.g. pressed a key)
• One interaction = one click. You can't click on different elements from one user interaction
• Actions hidden in menus require two clicks. So when I went to build this, I could only get the message menu to open and it wouldn't click on the "Block sender" action
• Gmail doesn't add the menu to the DOM until you click on the menu button, so I have to click on the menu first

Options So, to do this, it would need to be a sequential key shortcut like Shift+. (open the message menu) → b (block)

The only other option I could think of (but wasn't able to get to work) is Gmail supports mouse down → move mouse to menu item → release mouse to open a menu and select something in it. But I wasn't able to simulate that with MouseEvents.

[leggett]

Upon more digging, I don't think that is what is blocking it. Something else isn't working... will keep digging.

[xarg]

Thanks @leggett! Didn't expect you to jump right on it 😀

Let me know if I can help. Two shortcuts in sequence is not ideal, but I would still use it.