Briskine: Email templates for Gmail

Write emails faster! Increase your productivity with templates and keyboard shortcuts on Gmail, Outlook, or LinkedIn.

Briskine: Fast Email Templates for Gmail - Firefox Add-on

Briskine: Email templates for Gmail is a Firefox add-on designed for speed and efficiency in email response. It creates customized templates out of repetitive text pieces, features keyboard shortcuts for quick insertion, supports numerous email platforms, and offers variable generation for personalizable messages. A premium version allows sharing of templates across teams.

Add-on stats

By: Briskine
Users: 686
-14
Rating: 4.86
(14)
Version: 7.14.1 (Last updated: 2024-12-11)
Creation date: 2020-10-05
Weekly download count: 17
Firefox on Android: Yes
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • contextMenus
  • storage
  • scripting
  • unlimitedStorage
  • https://*/*
  • http://*/*
Size: 522.76K

Other platforms

Briskine: Email templates for Gmail™ (v7.14.1)
4.47 (588) 100,000
Not available on Android
Briskine: Email templates for Gmail™ (v7.14.1)
2.50 (2) 22,908
Want to check extension ranking and stats more quickly for other Firefox add-ons? Install Chrome-Stats extension to view Firefox-Stats data as you browse the Firefox Browser Add-ons.

Add-on summary

Write emails faster with templates.

Create templates out of repetitive pieces of text. Insert them in your emails within seconds with shortcuts, and respond faster to your customers! ➤ Use for: Customer Support, Sales, Personal productivity ➤ Officially supported: Gmail, Outlook, Facebook, LinkedIn, Fastmail, Yahoo Mail.

★ Keyboard shortcuts (or snippets) You’re always ending your emails with “Kind regards, Ken”? With keyboard shortcuts, you can type ‘kr’ and then press the ‘TAB’ key and get the same result only faster!

★ Create your own templates You find yourself writing repetitive pieces of text in your emails? Make it a template! So now, you can use a shortcut to insert this template and respond to an email within seconds. Templates are comparable to Canned Responses in Gmail, or Macros in Zendesk, but are faster and easier to customize.

★ Variables Most of your emails start with “Hello firstname”? Press ‘h’ and then the ‘TAB’ key and it will write “Hello Jennifer” (if you’re writing to Jennifer, of course ; ) )

See more

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Super simple to use
  • Saves time and keystrokes
  • Great support for the free version
  • Effective for writing repetitive emails
  • Works well across various platforms
Cons
  • Does not automatically replace or expand text
  • Requires manual activation of shortcuts
  • Trailing spaces in shortcuts result in unwanted characters
  • Templates not accessible from the context menu
  • Pricing for the pro version is considered high
Most mentioned
  • Saves time and effort
  • Manual shortcut activation
  • Limitations on available macros in free version
User reviews
by Stephen Lacey, 2024-10-08

I've been using "Text Blaze", a text expander Extension for Chrome. After a recent "update", I decided that it was time to jump ship. I've tried several different Addons that allege to do the same thing Text Blaze, but of the handful, this Addon seems to be the only one that works as intended across all websites. Now, I'm aware this Addon is intended to be something to make e-mail templates with, but it seems to be the multi-platform version of Text Blaze in everything but name and presentation – at least, it can be set up to act similarly. Unfortunately, it does not perfectly replicate all functions. I'll explain. First and foremost, this Addon won't automatically replace or expand text. It requires manual activation via Shortcut key. This is somewhat easy to work around – I just set my Shortcut key to the Space Bar. However, this brings up the next issue. When triggering text replacement, the Addon tends to eat your input. For example, let's say you type "kr" and hit Tab. This would cause the letters to expand to "Kind regards, [your name]". This is fine… except in cases where you need the Shortcut key to actually do something other than be a shortcut key. I have several macros which replace characters. Ellipses, em dash, and even some emojis. Using Text Blaze, I'm used to being able to type my shortcut and hit Space to get the "expanded" text and a space. With the Space Bar set as the shortcut key, here, I end up getting my "expanded" text, but no space. For example, I have a shortcut that changes "trademark" in "™". If I type "trademark" followed by a space, I get "™" without a space on the end. To get around this, I manually added spaces to my shortcuts. And this… leads to another problem. Trailing spaces in shortcuts seem to get auto-replaced by " ", or Alt-255 (under Windows). At face value, this is fine. However, on some websites such as Google Search, this literally displays as "[shortcut] ". That's just silly, not to mention ugly. And finally, the Addon doesn't seem to have the where-with-all to realize that characters preceding a shortcut may not be part of said shortcut. For example, if I type "Soontrademark" and hit Space, I get "Soontrademark " instead of "Soon™ " (or "Soon™ ", as previously mentioned). Most auto-expanders or text replacers don't know the difference, either, so this is pretty normal. Text Blaze knows the difference, though, which is why I'm mentioning it. Anyway. It's a good and fine Addon that actually works correctly. But for my purposes? I have to pass on it.
by Jo Li KMC, 2024-04-23
View all user reviews

Add-on safety

Risk impact

Briskine: Email templates for Gmail requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Briskine: Email templates for Gmail is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Upgrade to see risk analysis details