I’m a product designer, and a massive pet peeve of mine is workflow friction. Because I use webmail (Gmail), clicking a random mailto: link on a website would always freeze my Mac for 5 seconds while it tried to boot up Apple Mail or an Outlook setup wizard.
So, I built a lightweight Chrome extension called Mailto:Copy
What it does:
- Intercepts the click.
- Prevents the OS mail app from launching.
- Strips out the junk (like
?subject=blah). - Copies the clean email directly to your clipboard.
- Shows a quick, non-intrusive toast notification.
It’s completely free, has no tracking, and no analytics. I literally just built it to preserve my own sanity.
If this is something that annoys you too, you can grab it here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mailtocopy/lbinbpbddnflfchnmbikkbniglehbaej
Let me know if you run into any bugs.
u/EnvironmentalBig4384 — 12 days ago