Shrunk Outlook Add-in

shrunk-outlook-demo.mp4

Goal

To easily insert images (specifically tracking pixels) to an Outlook Email.

Features

• Insert tracking pixels to your Outlook Email
• Support for (an infinite?) number of tracking pixels
• Automatically detect invisible tracking pixels as you draft your email
  • Undos, redos, re-ordering, deletions, etc. are all reflected onto the task pane
• Quickly show the locations of your tracking pixels within your email body
• Prevents multiple inserts of the same tracking pixel (even when you click thrice super fast!)

To Get Started

Prerequisites

1. Node.js
2. NPM

Steps

1. Clone the repo git clone git@github.com:oss/Shrunk-Outlook-Add-In.git and cd into the project.
2. Run npm install. Once installation is finished, run npm start.
3. Navigate to https://outlook.office.com/mail/
4. Open any email
5. Under the subject, there will be a few icons. Click the square with four circles inside of it (Apps)
6. Find the extension and click on it.
7. Follow the instructions.

Click here for more information on side loading.

Important Information

Side-loading only works for Windows machines.

shrunk-dist-prod.zip and shrunk-dist-dev.zip are distribution builds of this project that are built on every new tag creation (new release version. see .github/workflows/ci.yml for more details). They differ in their manifest.xml files: when grabbing assets, the base URL either becomes go.rutgers.edu/outlook/assets or shrunk.rutgers.edu/outlook/assets, where shrunk.r.e is the test instance of go.rutgers.edu.