The new Briskine Sidebar puts your templates in a side panel that stays open, so you can insert several in a row without reopening the dialog each time. It's also the first way to insert templates directly into Google Docs.

The Briskine Dialog closes as soon as you insert a template, so filling out a longer email or replying to several messages in a row means reopening it every time.

The Sidebar stays open on the side of your browser window, so you can pick a template, then pick the next one without closing anything in between. Because it's a native browser panel rather than something tied to a single page, it follows you across tabs, and works with Chrome's split view if you're working in two tabs side by side.

How to open the Sidebar

Right-click anywhere on the page and choose Briskine → Open sidebar.

If you're on a Chromium-based browser, like Chrome, Brave, or Edge, you can also right-click the Briskine icon in your toolbar and select Open side panel.

Once it's open, focus the text field you want to fill in, then select a template in the Sidebar to insert it. You can browse and search your templates the same way you would in the dialog.

The Sidebar is resizable, so you can make it wider to see more of your templates at a glance. It's available alongside the Dialog and Bubble everywhere Briskine already works.

Google Docs support

We've had requests for Google Docs support for a while. Because the Sidebar is a native browser panel, it works in Google Docs too, where the Dialog and Bubble aren't available.

Open a Google Doc, bring up the Sidebar, and insert templates into your document the same way you would anywhere else.

For more details, visit the Sidebar page in the Briskine Help Center.