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Whenever you read a new email it will generate thoughts and ideas in your mind that you may want to record, e.g. to help a future reply or to define your intended outcome of the conversation.

And if you conduct the conversation in other mediums - such as on the phone, face to face, or by IM - you might want to store the key points in a single place: the email conversation that Gmail helpfully creates.

ActiveInbox makes it easy to create these Gmail notes without exposing them to your contact with the ActiveInbox Plus "Reply to Self" button, which adds a private email to the end of the conversation.