New to Gmail: share emails in Google Chat

What’s changing

We’re launching a new integration between Gmail and Google Chat designed to improve team collaboration and productivity. With this feature, you can easily share a conversation from your Gmail inbox to a Chat direct message or space. No need to start your chat conversation with, "Did you see the email I forwarded?" or dig through your inbox to find the message being discussed.

Starting from a Gmail thread, you can initiate a chat with the existing email recipients, a subset, or a new group. The email is automatically forwarded and recipients can open it directly from a link in Chat.

This enables you to switch to Chat for active discussion while preserving the connection to the original message. Two-way linking helps ensure that everyone has the full context they need for a productive discussion and reduces the need to jump between tabs.

This feature is helpful in common scenarios such as:

• Resolving an issue in real time instead of going back and forth over email
• Chatting about an email with a subset of the original group before responding
• Discussing a customer email with coworkers
• Signal boosting an announcement by company leadership 
• Sharing meetings notes and action items

Sharing an email in Google Chat