Product
Email Relationship Tracking for Gmail
Email relationship tracking for Gmail means preserving the unfinished state of a conversation after the message itself stops looking urgent.
The useful question is what remains unfinished: who may owe the next move, what changed, and whether the conversation needs another look. Gmail already offers follow-up suggestions; Sidekick Log explores a separate view of conversation state.
What relationship tracking means here
Sidekick Log tracks lightweight derived state around active Gmail conversations. A thread can be waiting on you, waiting on them, materially changed, resolved, or worth keeping in orbit without interrupting you yet.
Why this is not contact management
The product is not trying to build a database of everyone you know. It is trying to remember the unfinished edge of conversations that may become consequential.
Why this matters for founders and operators
Many important conversations never become tasks or CRM objects. They stay informal until the timing window closes. Relationship tracking helps preserve that state without requiring every thread to become a project.
How Sidekick Log uses it
The product uses derived state to surface conversations that may be waiting, quiet, or changed. Finding latent opportunities and patterns across conversations remains a research direction; it is not a promise that the current extension identifies every obligation or opportunity.
Read Conversation Continuity and the research note.