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Save your own email templates

Made an email you love? Save it as a template and reuse the layout whenever you need it — no rebuilding, no copy-paste. @bridge keeps your structure (headings, tables, callouts, buttons) and your brand, ready to fill in next time.

When @bridge has designed an email for you, save its layout in one step:

  1. In the Thunderbird compose window, open the @bridge popover.

  2. Click Save as template.

  3. Give it a name (e.g. Monthly update) and Save.

Only the layout is kept — recipients are never stored, so a template is a clean starting point, not a half-addressed draft. Variable bits stay as placeholders you fill in each time.

Open Thunderbird’s Add-ons and Themes → atbridge.ai → Options, then go to Branded Email → Templates. There you’ll find:

  • Your saved templatesReview any one (a visual preview of the rendered email) or Delete the ones you no longer need.
  • Starter templates — the ready-made set, there to review and reuse. These are built in, so they can’t be deleted.

Once saved, a template is available everywhere @bridge composes — just ask your AI for it by name in the chat or popover, or use the command line:

Terminal window
# See everything — starters + your saved templates
atbridge compose templates list
# Get a saved template's layout to fill in
atbridge compose templates show "Monthly update"
# Render it on your brand and open it in Thunderbird
atbridge compose render --spec monthly-update.json

You can also save and remove templates from the terminal:

Terminal window
atbridge compose templates save "Monthly update" --from-last
atbridge compose templates delete "Monthly update"

Connected an AI over MCP? It can save and reuse your templates too, through the compose_templates tools.

Templates inherit your saved theme, so set your brand once and every saved template carries it. See Set up your brand theme, or browse the starter templates to start from.

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