Introducing Paste as Link: Turn Selected Text Into Hyperlinks
You’re composing an email. You want to link some text to a URL. In Gmail, this means: That’s five steps for something that should take one. Every modern productivity app—Notion, Slack, Confluence, GitHub—lets you simply paste a URL over selected text to create a link. Gmail still doesn’t. With CMDK, this is now one step. […]
Introducing Instant Copy for Gmail: Copy Your Emails in 1 Keystroke to Paste Into Other Tools
We often need to copy emails into other tools. Whether it’s pasting into Notion for reference, sharing in Slack, adding to a task manager, or feeding context to AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity. In Gmail, this is tedious. You have to carefully select the text, hope you don’t miss anything, and often end up with broken formatting or missing images. With CMDK new Instant Copy feature, it’s […]
Introducing Quick Quote: Quote Any Email Text in One Keystroke
We’re excited to announce Quick Quote, a powerful new feature that makes replying to emails faster and more efficient. With a single keystroke, you can now quote any text from an email directly into your reply. What is Quick Quote? Quick Quote lets you select any text from an email and instantly insert it as a properly formatted quote in your reply How simple is it? Select text, press Q, and you’re done. The selected text appears in your reply […]
CMDK vs Shortwave: Which Gmail Productivity Tool Is Right for You? (2026)
If you’re a Gmail power user looking to supercharge your inbox, you’ve likely come across both CMDK and Shortwave. Both promise to transform your email workflow, but they take fundamentally different approaches. In this comprehensive comparison, we’ll break down the features, pricing, privacy implications, and platform differences to help you make an informed decision about […]