ProText for Google Messages™: Themes, Folders & Undo

Themes, smart folder tabs, undo send, schedule send, contact CRM notes, and power tools for Google Messages for Web.

NO Ads. NO Tracking. NO Fees. NO Subscriptions. Build by a human for humans. Transform Google Messages for Web into a modern, feature-packed messaging powerhouse. ProText brings personalized bulk announcements, canned message templates, custom OLED themes, smart conversation folders, an undo-send safety buffer, contact CRM notes, and productivity tools right to your desktop browser. 100% Private & Local-First: Zero tracking. Zero remote servers. All your recipient groups, templates, themes, notes, and messages remain securely on your device. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ 1. UNDO SEND SAFETY BUFFER & DELAYED SEND ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Prevent accidental sends, typos, or texting the wrong person before it's too late. • 3-Second Undo Window: When you hit Send or press Enter, ProText holds the message in a 3-second safety buffer. • 1-Click Instant Undo: Click the on-screen "Undo" button or hit Esc / Ctrl+Z to pull the message back into the composer, edit your typo, or cancel it completely. • Recipient Safeguard: Verifies recipient identity before dispatching so texts are never sent to the wrong conversation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 2. CANNED MESSAGE TEMPLATES & QUICK REPLIES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Stop retyping the same repetitive responses, directions, appointment confirmations, and FAQs. • Instant Template Picker: Save your most frequently used text messages and insert them into the composer in one click. • Dynamic Variables: Templates automatically populate recipient names and details when selected. • Categorized Snippets: Organize canned responses for work, support, family, or ministry. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 3. MATERIAL THEME ENGINE & BUILDER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Tired of the default stark white or generic gray? Customize Google Messages to match your personal aesthetic or desktop workspace. • 12+ Handcrafted Themes: - AMOLED Pure Black (True #000000 black for OLED screens and maximum battery savings) - Dracula & Navy Midnight (Deep, rich dark tones engineered for nighttime reading) - Emerald Forest, Cyberpunk Neon & Pink Sakura (Vibrant, modern aesthetics) - Clean Light, Nordic Frost, Warm Paper, Lavender Mist & Mint Breeze (Soft, eye-friendly light palettes) • Interactive Theme Builder: Fine-tune background hues, message bubble colors, text contrast, and accent highlights with live real-time previews. • Auto-Sync Mode: Automatically switches between your preferred light and dark themes based on your system or browser settings. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📁 4. SMART CONVERSATION FOLDER TABS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Stop endlessly scrolling through your chat list to find important messages. Organize your inbox just like your email. • Pre-Built Smart Tabs: - All: Complete view of all active conversations. - Unread: Filter instantly to only chats with new, unread messages. - Follow-Up: Keep track of important conversations that require a response. - Work & Personal: Separate business contacts and personal threads. • Custom Folder Rules: Create custom tabs that automatically sort threads based on keywords or specific contact phone numbers. • Live Unread Badges: See unread message count counters on each tab at a glance. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📢 5. PERSONALIZED BULK TEXTING & ANNOUNCEMENTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Send individual messages to entire groups, teams, or clients directly from your computer—without triggering an awkward group chat where everyone sees each other’s replies! • 1-on-1 Delivery: Every contact receives a clean, private, direct individual text. No group MMS chaos. • Smart Variable Tags ({firstName}, {lastName}): Automatically personalize each text with recipient names so messages feel personal and warm. • Human-Pace Sending Safeguard: Staggers message delivery with safe pauses between texts to protect your account and comply with mobile carrier delivery limits. • Contact Groups & Lists: Organize contacts into reusable lists (e.g., "Volunteers", "Clients", "Staff", "VIPs") for 1-click repeated broadcasts. • CSV / Contact Import: Easily import recipient lists and phone numbers directly from spreadsheets or Google Contacts. • Campaign Progress Tracker: Real-time visual progress bar showing dispatched messages, queue status, and completion time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👤 6. CONTACT CRM NOTES & ALIASES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Ideal for pastors, small business owners, freelancers, and community organizers managing dozens of daily contacts. • Private Contact Notes: Jot down quick meeting reminders, pastoral care notes, family details, or project tasks inside any conversation thread (stored privately only on your computer). • Custom Nicknames & Aliases: Give contacts clear nicknames or role titles (e.g., "John Smith (Electrician)") without altering your official Google Contacts address book. • Google Contacts 1-Click Export: Export your local contact notes and phone numbers into a formatted .CSV file ready for 1-click import into Google Contacts. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛡️ 7. PRIVACY SHIELD (SCREEN BLUR) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Work with confidence in public coffee shops, shared coworking spaces, or open offices. • Instant Screen Blur: Blurs chat text, sensitive message previews, and media attachments across your inbox. • Hover-to-Reveal: Simply hover your cursor over any blurred bubble to temporarily read it. • Fast Keyboard Shortcut: Press Alt + P to instantly toggle the privacy blur on or off. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ 8. SPEED & POWER TOOLS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Quick Reaction Emoji Bar: Instant 1-click reaction emojis (👍, ❤️, 🙏, 😂, 🎉) placed conveniently above the message box. • Quick Switcher Command Palette (Alt + K): Search across conversations, jump to tabs, or launch settings in milliseconds using keyboard navigation. • Shared Links & Media Drawer: View all links, photos, and files exchanged in a conversation in one consolidated side panel. • Conversation Exporter: Export and print clean conversation transcripts to PDF, plain text, or your clipboard for documentation and records. • Complete Data Backup & Restore: Export all your themes, notes, and custom settings into a portable .JSON file to migrate to any computer. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 100% PRIVATE, SECURE & LOCAL-FIRST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Your privacy is our utmost priority: ✔ No Remote Servers: ProText operates 100% locally in your browser. ✔ No Analytics or Trackers: We never collect, monitor, or track your communications. ✔ No Data Selling: Your messages, contact lists, and personal information never leave your machine. ✔ Minimum Permissions: Requires only standard local storage permission—no background network transmission. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌨️ KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Alt + K → Open Quick Switcher command palette • Alt + P → Toggle Privacy Shield (Screen Blur) • Esc or Ctrl + Z → Undo message during 3-second send delay ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 QUESTIONS, FEEDBACK & BUG REPORTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Have an idea for a new feature or ran into a bug? 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