Email This for Chrome: Quick One-Click Webpage Emailing

How to Use Email This for Chrome — Save Pages to Your InboxSaving web pages to your email can simplify research, bookmarking, and sharing. Email This for Chrome is a browser extension that sends a webpage directly to your inbox with one click. This guide walks through installation, configuration, usage tips, advanced settings, troubleshooting, and alternatives so you can choose the workflow that fits you best.

What Email This for Chrome does

Email This streamlines the process of emailing a webpage to yourself or others by extracting the page’s main content (or the full page) and creating an email draft in your chosen email client. Instead of copying links, saving PDFs, or relying on cloud notes, Email This gives you a quick way to build an archive of articles in your email—searchable and accessible from any device with your inbox.

Installing the extension

1. Open Chrome and go to the Chrome Web Store.
2. Search for “Email This” or follow a direct link to the extension page.
3. Click “Add to Chrome,” then confirm by selecting “Add extension.”
4. After installation, the Email This icon (an envelope) appears in the toolbar.
5. Pin the extension: click the puzzle piece (extensions menu) and choose the pin icon so the Email This icon stays visible.

Initial setup and permissions

• Click the Email This icon. The extension may request permissions to read the page and access tabs—these are needed to extract content and build the email.
• Choose your preferred email sending method in the extension options. Common options include opening a new Gmail compose window, sending via your default mail client (mailto), or downloading an .eml file for later use.
• You can also connect third-party services if the extension supports them; follow the on-screen prompts to authorize any integration.

Basic usage

1. Navigate to the webpage you want to save.
2. Click the Email This icon in your toolbar.
3. A small preview or options pane appears. Choose between “Save as article” (strips extraneous elements) and “Save full page” (sends the whole content).
4. The extension opens a new email composition window in your selected client with the extracted content and a link to the original page already included.
5. Edit the subject or body if needed, add recipients, then send. If you’re saving for yourself, send it to your own email address or use a dedicated archive address or label.

Customization and advanced features

• Readability settings: adjust whether the extension extracts the main article, grabs images, or keeps formatting.
• Default recipient: set a default email address to save time when archiving pages to yourself.
• Keyboard shortcuts: assign a hotkey in Chrome to trigger Email This without clicking the toolbar icon.
• Templates: some versions allow custom email templates to add labels, tags, or a consistent subject line format.
• Send later: use your email client’s scheduling features to queue messages if you want to batch-send saved pages.

Best practices for organizing saved pages

• Use a dedicated email label/folder such as “Saved Web” or “Reading List.”
• Create filters in your email client to automatically label incoming messages from Email This, and optionally skip the inbox.
• Include tags or subject prefixes (e.g., “[ReadLater]”) to make searching easier.
• Periodically archive or export older saved items to prevent inbox clutter.

Troubleshooting common issues

• Extension not appearing: ensure it’s installed and pinned; try restarting Chrome.
• Permissions errors: check Chrome’s extension permissions and allow access to the active tab.
• Content missing from email: switch between “Article” and “Full Page” modes; some sites block content extraction.
• Images not included: verify the option to include images is enabled; some sites use lazy-loading that prevents extraction—reload the page before saving.
• Gmail compose doesn’t open: confirm Gmail is set as your default mailto handler in Chrome settings, or choose the Gmail option in the extension settings.

Privacy considerations

Email This reads page content to create the email; avoid sending sensitive information via the extension unless you trust the destination. If you use a personal email for archiving, consider filters and two-factor authentication for account security.

Alternatives

• Pocket: saves links and article text to its own app with offline reading.
• Instapaper: similar to Pocket with focus on text clarity and speed-reading features.
• Evernote / OneNote web clippers: save full-page content to note-taking apps with rich organization.
• Send to Kindle: delivers articles to your Kindle for offline reading.

Example workflows

• Researcher: Set default recipient to your research email, use “Article” mode, tag subjects with project codes, and filter into project folders automatically.
• Journalist: Use “Full Page” mode for source preservation, send to an email label synced across devices, and export periodically for backups.
• Casual reader: Send interesting reads to your main email with “ReadLater” in the subject and schedule a weekly review.

Final tips

• Experiment with article vs full-page modes to see which preserves content you need.
• Use filters and labels immediately to prevent saved emails from getting lost.
• Keep an eye on storage and periodically clean out or export archived items.

If you want, I can write step-by-step setup instructions with screenshots, a printable quick-reference card of keyboard shortcuts, or a comparison chart tailored to your email client (Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail).