[MlMt] Standard reply/respons mails

[Guillaume Barrette]

Hi Marc,

   To give you some more suggestions...

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.

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).

With that said, I would say that [Keyboard 
Maestro](https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/) 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.

To have an overview, you can see here how to create a fill-in snippets: 
http://www.macdrifter.com/2016/04/a-quick-tour-of-keyboard-maestro-fill-in-snippets.html


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 [Copy'em 
Paste](https://apprywhere.com/copy-em-paste.html)

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: [SnippetsLab](https://www.renfei.org/snippets-lab/) which also have 
a nice menubar item to search your snippets) or other who let you create 
text expansion with placeholders (ex: [Dash](https://kapeli.com/dash) )

Regarding templates using only MailMate, here are some suggestions:

1. 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.

2. Again, not the best idea, but you could create multiple signatures 
where each one is a different template.

3. 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 [Pashua](https://www.bluem.net/en/projects/pashua/) or something 
else...

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!

Best,

--
Guillaume

On 22 Apr 2020, at 10:50, Jan Erik Moström wrote:

> On 22 Apr 2020, at 16:29, Denis Ricard via mailmate wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Personally I prefer Typinator but since I'm on several different 
> machines I use Textexpander.
>
> = jem
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