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<p dir="auto">Hi Marc,</p>
<p dir="auto"> To give you some more suggestions...</p>
<p dir="auto">Personally I love Alfred, but for an email template with placeholders that you could easily modify at the time of invoking the template, I would use Typinator (like Denis and Jan suggested) since it is easier to setup with less workaround to input your value.</p>
<p dir="auto">If you want to use a template without placeholders, then Alfred could be a very good solution and that you could use for other features as well (like creating your own workflows based on your work).</p>
<p dir="auto">With that said, I would say that <a href="https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/" style="color:#3983C4">Keyboard Maestro</a> could be another very good suggestion. You can do many things with it like snippet expansion with placeholders, having a popup macro palette with buttons that could do anything you set them to do. For example, if you are more of a click focused user than a keyboard centric, then you could put your templates as different buttons on the palette that you can invoke by clicking them instead of remembering a snippet text trigger.</p>
<p dir="auto">To have an overview, you can see here how to create a fill-in snippets: <a href="http://www.macdrifter.com/2016/04/a-quick-tour-of-keyboard-maestro-fill-in-snippets.html" style="color:#3983C4">http://www.macdrifter.com/2016/04/a-quick-tour-of-keyboard-maestro-fill-in-snippets.html</a></p>
<p dir="auto">Another suggestion would be to use a clipboard manager application that you could save content into a group of clipboard items. I mean, an application like <a href="https://apprywhere.com/copy-em-paste.html" style="color:#3983C4">Copy'em Paste</a></p>
<p dir="auto">Another suggestion, you could use a snippet manager to organize your templates and some of them allow to copy the content to the clipboard (ex: <a href="https://www.renfei.org/snippets-lab/" style="color:#3983C4">SnippetsLab</a> which also have a nice menubar item to search your snippets) or other who let you create text expansion with placeholders (ex: <a href="https://kapeli.com/dash" style="color:#3983C4">Dash</a> )</p>
<p dir="auto">Regarding templates using only MailMate, here are some suggestions:</p>
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<li value="1"><p dir="auto">You could set a mailbox in MailMate named "Templates" (for example) where you could send your templates into and then use "Edit as new message..." action of MailMate to reuse the template. Not the best to reply to someone, but if your situation is to deal with new email, then this could work.</p></li>
<li value="2"><p dir="auto">Again, not the best idea, but you could create multiple signatures where each one is a different template.</p></li>
<li value="3"><p dir="auto">You could create yourself a MailMate bundle that could add this feature. This is more work, but if you want something that is directly inside MailMate, this could be a good solution. You could invoke a script and create an input dialog for your placeholder using AppleScript or <a href="https://www.bluem.net/en/projects/pashua/" style="color:#3983C4">Pashua</a> or something else...</p></li>
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<p dir="auto">I think this gives you many ideas/possibilities... again, myself I would use Typinator, but you could look at the others and see if something better fit how you work. From my point of view, they are all really great applications!</p>
<p dir="auto">Best,</p>
<p dir="auto">--<br>
Guillaume</p>
<p dir="auto">On 22 Apr 2020, at 10:50, Jan Erik Moström wrote:</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">On 22 Apr 2020, at 16:29, Denis Ricard via mailmate wrote:<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><p dir="auto">I would add to what Stefan said that, in addition to TextExpander which I used for a while, there is also Typinator which I use now and that I now prefer. Both TextExpander and Typinator can do what you need, including things like presenting you with a text with placeholders for the name of the client for example (or other variables) before pasting the canned response.<br>
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Depending on the size of your company and how many people answer customers, I think that TextExpander now has features for sharing snippets among team members.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">My suggestion: if you are alone or working separately from each other then Typinator is better (faster, nicer ... I just like it better), but if you need to use several machines and/or sync for several users then Textexpander is probably better.<br>
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Personally I prefer Typinator but since I'm on several different machines I use Textexpander.<br>
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= jem<br>
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