Variables

Dates, clipboard, and profile data that fill themselves in at expansion time.

Built-in variables

Put these tokens in any snippet content and they resolve at the moment of expansion:

  • {date} · today's date
  • {time} · the current time
  • {clipboard} · whatever you last copied
  • {profile} · the active profile's name

Profile variables

Every field you add to a profile becomes a variable. If your profile has an Email field, {email} expands to its value, and switching profiles switches the value everywhere it is used. That is how one signature snippet serves both work-you and personal-you.

Mixing

Variables work in plain snippets, in chains, and in snippet values used by autofill. A shortcut like ;meet can expand to "Talked on {date}, follow-up sent to {email}" and be right every single time.