When you import an email attachment into a project as a document (see the “Import common document attachments as PDFs” work), the imported PDF and the email it came from should stay linked and easy to move between — both in the app and in the export.
1. Cross-navigation in the app
- From the imported document's PDF view, a link back to the source email it was extracted from.
- From the email, a link out to its imported attachment document(s).
- Make jumping between the two effortless — you're often redacting the email and its attachment as one piece of work.
2. Hierarchical export
- On export, the imported attachment PDF should sit “underneath” its parent email — a parent/child hierarchy rather than a flat list, so the relationship is obvious when someone reviews the exported bundle.
- The structure should make clear “this PDF came from that email”.
3. Linked attachment inside the exported PDF
- In the exported email PDF, embed a link / attached document pointing to the imported attachment PDF, so a reviewer can jump straight to it from within the email export.
Notes / scope:
- The data link already exists — imported documents store a
source_email_id back to their email — so this is mostly UI navigation + export-structure work, not new plumbing. - Depends on the convert-standard-docs import feature; logged separately to keep that one focused.
- Export piece needs design: how the hierarchy is represented (folder nesting in the ZIP, ordering in a combined PDF) and how the in-PDF link/attachment is generated (pdf-lib link annotation or embedded file).