Hey Pigeon
A personal project, not a product. Testing purposes only.

One bird carrying
your mail.

A minimalist, keyboard-first Gmail client I built for how I personally use email. Not trying to compete with anything, not production-ready — treat it as an experiment.

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Hey Pigeon
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PT Product Team New release notesVersion 2.4 is out with a few small fixes... Yesterday
TODAY
JC Jamie Chen Notes from todaySending over the summary we discussed... 9:41 AM
LN Linear Task moved to In ReviewA teammate updated the status and left a comment... 8:15 AM
AS Asana Weekly digestHere is what happened across your projects... 7:02 AM
LAST 7 DAYS
RT Riley Torres Re: Coffee next week?Works for me, does Tuesday morning suit you... Mon
GH GitHub A new access token was createdA personal access token was created on your account... Mon

No backend. Ever.

Hey Pigeon has no server of any kind. It talks straight to your own Google account: Gmail for mail, a hidden Drive folder for reminder sync. Everything stays inside your Google account and a local database on your device. There's no third-party data store to worry about, because there isn't one.

Keyboard-first

j/k to navigate, e to archive, / to search, ⌘K for everything else.

Local-first

Your mailbox lives in a local database. Open, archive, search: 0ms perceived latency.

Multiple accounts

Unified inbox across accounts, with a per-account filter a keystroke away.

No server, ever

Client-only. AI features are bring-your-own-key, calling providers directly from your device.

AI writing assistant

Give the compose box an instruction, like "shorter" or "more formal," and it rewrites the draft in place. BYOK: your OpenAI key, called directly from your device.

AI triage with Jev

Every thread gets a priority and your own labels via Jev, sorted automatically. Local-only — never written back to Gmail.