Posted on Tue 29th September, 2026

In the last two posts on Dynamic placeholders, we covered how to insert the date and time, and how to use a variety of other useful sources of content such as your clipboard, query, or a random string.

In this third guide to Dynamic Placeholders, we're integrating placeholders into workflows.

Your snippet can be created on the fly by popping up a prompt in a workflow:

For this snippet, I'd like to add two bits of dynamic content; First, I want to type the name of a new club member, and second, choose a type of membership from a pre-defined list. Finally, I want this snippet to paste to the frontmost app.

The Snippet Trigger is set to the keyword hello with the prefix \\. Typing \\hello in any email or document will trigger the snippet.

The Keyword Input's keyword field is left blank and set to "Argument required". This is when I can type the name of my new club member.

The Argument & Variables Utility saves the club member's name to a variable for later use.

In the List Filter Input, I've pre-defined

The final object is a Copy to Clipboard Output.

Now that I've entered a choice for both placeholders, pressing Return will paste the full snippet to the frontmost app, replacing the dynamic placeholders.

Typing \\hello in the app where I want the final snippet to appear pops up our first prompt where I can type a name:

Next, we choose the Membership Type from the list:

Pressing Return pastes the output to the frontmost app:

Hello Ellie,

Welcome to the club! Your Trial Membership (7 days) has now been set up. :)

Cheers,
Vero

What snippets could you create with dynamic placeholders that will take care of repetitive tasks for you?