Send it to your own inbox in two taps.
mailself turns the iOS Share Sheet into a shortcut to your own email address.
For the email you already send yourself.
mailself is an iPhone application for people who already use their inbox to save links or other relevant information for later. It turns emailing yourself into a Share Sheet action.
- The Safari link is already selected.
- Your verified email address is already set.
- There is no email to compose or recipient to choose.
- One tap starts the send. Undo remains available for five seconds before the send is released.
For people who already send themselves links.
Tech-affine users who use their inbox to keep important information they want to come back to later.
The link is already found. The destination is already known: the inbox. mailself removes the compose step in between.
- Primary: United States
- Platform: iPhone
- Product language: English
The language stays as direct as the send.
mailself names the action, the destination and the current state. It does not turn a small task into a bigger story.
The symbol is four filled circles on one centre, each carrying the same opacity.
| Typeface | Geist |
| Upper line | Geist 300 |
| Lower line | Geist 500 |
| Case | Lowercase throughout |
| Line height | 0.92 |
| Letter-spacing | 0 / fitted to equal width |
| Line length | 4 and 4 characters |
| Opacity | 1 and 0.45 |
Letter-spacing −0.035em, the second word at 0.45 opacity. Secondary setting for narrow surfaces; the stacked lock stays the primary one. Where letter-spacing is set on centred text, a matching negative right margin cancels the trailing space behind the last letter.
| Canvas | 100 × 100 units |
| Shape | Filled circle |
| Layers | 4 |
| Centre | 50 / 50 |
| Radii | 46 · 34 · 22 · 11 |
| Radius step | 12 · 12 · 11 |
| Outer size | 92 of 100 |
| Clear space | 4 on every side |
| Opacity per layer | 0.28 |
| Zone | Layers | Effective | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outer ring | 1 | 0.280 | |
| Second ring | 2 | 0.482 | |
| Third ring | 3 | 0.627 | |
| Centre | 4 | 0.731 |
Both tiles show the symbol at 57 percent of the tile edge. The corner mask comes from iOS, not from the asset.
Below 29 pt
Not drawn and not judged. The tested sizes are the two above.
60 pt · 29 ptMid-tone grounds
At 0.28 the outer layer barely separates from a mid-tone ground. The mark needs a tile there, and the tile colour is open.
Four layers
The ceiling. Beyond four, the inner steps merge at small sizes.
The interface follows the send.
Idle, Sending, Sent and Limit Reached are the four product states. Color, type, motion and components show which state is active.
| Token | Role | Value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| dur. | Press feedback, meter step | 120ms | |
| dur. | State surface changes | 320ms | |
| dur. | Sheet enters | 400ms | |
| dur. | Undo window | 5000ms | |
| ease. | State change | cubic-bezier(.4,0,.2,1) | |
| ease. | Enter, settle | cubic-bezier(.16,1,.3,1) |
Color · Shared
mailself happens in the Share Sheet.
The Safari link is already selected and the destination is already known. The user only needs to send, undo or cancel.
Mail this
to yourself.
Going to
your inbox.
Sent.
Out of
sends.
Native on iPhone. Sent from the server.
| Language | Swift |
| UI framework | SwiftUI |
| Platform | iOS 16.2+ |
| Entry point | Native iOS Share Extension |
| Sending | Server-side |
| Recipient | Verified personal email address only |
| Undo window | Five seconds before release |
| Main app | Setup and email verification |