Comments on: Gmail Adds ‘Canned Responses’ and Saves Us all Time with FAQs

By: rafiq bryan

rafiq bryan — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:22:44 +0000

Gr8 feature. Thanks francis letting me know the feature. I use gmail for all my emails.

By: Find a Job!

Find a Job! — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:17:10 +0000

I always liked google gmail because they cut down on spam and they are just one of the easiest email accounts to use.

By: Cecelia

Cecelia — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:42:23 +0000

I didn’t know about this so THANKS. It’s what I’ve been dreaming of!

By: mommyinsider

mommyinsider — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:56:38 +0000

I love this! I just enabled canned responses and will use it to respond to new product review submissions that I don’t have time to respond to right away.
It’s important to me that I respond to submitters as quickly as possible and this will let them know that I received their submission and will contact them with further instructions as quickly as possible.

By: John Philips

John Philips — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:03:03 +0000

Forget the canned responses. I always just want to send dumb people who ask dumb questions to f***inggoogleit.com. Its a classic joke and clearly shows them they are being lazy!

By: Elmar

Elmar — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:16:29 +0000

Thanks for the tip! Great feature. I run a big forum and this is perfect to answer the daily returning “howto”-questions which are always the same.

By: KimC

KimC — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:05:29 +0000

I have quite a few Gmail addresses, all of which are checked from a single account inside Outlook Express.
I’ve been doing “canned responses” for a long time in Outlook Express. I simply save my canned responses with descriptive subjects in a folder called Form Letters.
Then when I need one, I copy the text into a reply, customize if appropriate, and hit the send button.
I suspect Google has made it even easier, but it’s certainly not a novel idea.

By: charles

charles — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:58:44 +0000

Is the program now stable or the program still got some few errors? Anyway, its a good thing to hear about the new feature gmail has. I have been waiting for this all along and thanks to TextExpander and Canned Responses.

By: HelloKit

HelloKit — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:42:21 +0000

I think “Canned Responses” is sort of a misnomer for this feature, since it doesn’t have to be used only for responses. I just used it to set up a message to send to unconfirmed subscribers on my blog, to thank them for visiting and subscribing, remind them they haven’t confirmed yet, and offer to confirm them manually in case their confirmation e-mail got lost. I can think of a lot of other non-reply uses for it, too… like contest winner notifications. Maybe they should have just called it “Message Templates”.

By: Jessica N

Jessica N — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:48:02 +0000

Fantastic! I use gmail for work purposes – and once my blog is finally launched my other account will definitely make use of that (although it’s probably safe to say that there won’t be a flood of mail heading my way, at least for several months!).

Copying and pasting was REALLY becoming a drag.

Today Google is my new bestest friend! Three Cheers For Google! Huzzah!

By: Young Che

Young Che — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:41:26 +0000

Good thing I don’t have to worry about that yet. My email system is not even set up. That’s something I plan on getting around to asap

By: Kok Choon

Kok Choon — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:37:26 +0000

Have been looking for this feature in my outlook…no luck! Google keep improving user experience, I truly love Google.

By: Matthew Clark

Matthew Clark — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:41:30 +0000

Thanks for the tip on that one, I had no idea and I had been using text files and copying and pasting. Great tip

Make it great,
Matt

By: Surender

Surender — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:37:57 +0000

This is a great tool from google.It gives a lot of freedom of pre made content.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:22:19 +0000

This is so cool. I never saw this before! Haha!

Great, thanks for the tip!

By: Michael Martine - Remarkablogger

Michael Martine - Remarkablogger — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:39:04 +0000

Gmail just gets better and better. I think I’ll write up a bunch of canned responses and use them all the time for everything, whether they’re appropriate or not. Each one will say CANNED RESPONSE at the top.

I think that will go over well.

By: jennine

jennine — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:52:47 +0000

ok i just installed this.. and i tell you it’s going to save me tons of time!

THANKYOU!

By: Big Blogger

Big Blogger — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:38:39 +0000

Oh, i found it. I had first to switch my Gmail settings back to english language.

ciao
alex-

By: Eric Barnes

Eric Barnes — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:22:03 +0000

This is cool. I have started using TextExpander for the mac and it works brilliantly. So now all my responses are available no matter if I am writing an email, creating a post, or answering a forum thread, or typing code.

It has been a lifesaver. Well worth the little money it costs.

By: jennine

jennine — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:19:11 +0000

oh thank you! this is exactly what i needed, because before I just used stickies to keep all that information. and pretty soon my virtual desktop looked like my actual desktop. covered in post-its

here are the email messages i’d can:

login to forum information
linking group information
community membership acceptance letters
community membership rejection letters
please send correct url letter
link to faq’s
thanks for getting in touch with your new product_____, i’ve added it to my bookmarks for further review letter

mom, i’d like to call you tomorrow is that ok? (we’re on opposites sides of the world) and i’m kiddng. i’ll still type that.