YabA snippet is words you keep to write again: an introduction, directions, a polite no. It can bring people, a subject and files with it, and it fills in names as it goes in. One list serves every account, kept on this Mac.
Put one in#
In a reply or a new mail, type ; and the start of a snippet’s name, such as ;intro: the snippets by that name hang under the caret. ↑ and ↓ choose, and ↩ or ⇥ puts one in; esc leaves the ; as you typed it. Or press ⌘; for every snippet, the ones you use most first, and type to find one.
Its people and subject go in only where the mail has none, its files join yours, and the caret lands on the first place to fill. One ⌘Z takes all of it back.
Names that fill in#
{first_name}and{name}: the first person in To.{my_name}: yours.{date}: today, as your Mac writes a date.
Two braces, as in {{time}}, make a place to fill by hand, and so does a name with nothing to fill it. A mail with one left in it doesn’t go: the line over Send says Fill in {{time}} before sending.
Make one#
From any mail, yours or not, or from the draft you’re writing, choose Save as Snippet in ⌘K and name it. A mail gives its own words and subject, without what it quotes or its signature; a draft gives its words, and a new mail’s subject, Cc, Bcc and files too.
Settings › Mail › Snippets lists them, the ones you use most first. New Snippet… writes one from scratch, a click on one opens it to change, its name changes right in the list, and a right-click deletes it.