{"id":1057,"date":"2020-11-14T17:24:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T22:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2020-11-14T17:33:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T22:33:53","slug":"clippings-for-thunderbird-replacement-quicktext","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2020\/11\/clippings-for-thunderbird-replacement-quicktext\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippings for Thunderbird replacement: Quicktext"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a long time user of Clippings in Thunderbird. I used it for canned responses in the support newsgroups and more. Now that the Clippings is not being updated for Thunderbird 78, it&#8217;s time to look for a replacement.<\/p>\n<p>I found a great replacement, called <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.thunderbird.net\/thunderbird\/addon\/quicktext\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quicktext<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With Quicktext, I create a TXT file for each response and put them in a designated directory. Quicktext has the option to paste from a TXT file or an HTML file. When composing a message, there are two buttons to the far-right above the text area.<\/p>\n<p>To paste text from a local file, click <strong>Other<\/strong>, then choose either <strong>Insert file as Text<\/strong> or <strong>Insert file as HTML<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ilias.ca\/Quicktext-1.png\" width=\"2354\" height=\"1284\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, you can click <strong>Variable<\/strong>, and paste items click the sender or recipient&#8217;s name, attachment name and size, dates, and more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ilias.ca\/Quicktext-2.png\" width=\"2728\" height=\"1300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found Quicktext to be more versatile than Clippings, and have been very happy with it. You can download it from <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.thunderbird.net\/thunderbird\/addon\/quicktext\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">addons.thunderbird.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a long time user of Clippings in Thunderbird. I used it for canned responses in the support newsgroups and more. Now that the Clippings is not being updated for Thunderbird 78, it&#8217;s time to look for a replacement.&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2020\/11\/clippings-for-thunderbird-replacement-quicktext\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla","category-thunderbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}