Sidebar
The Briskine Sidebar opens your templates in the browser's native side panel, so you can keep them in view while you browse and navigate a website in the main tab.
It looks and works exactly like the Briskine Dialog, with the same template list, search, tags, and preview, but with the added advantage that it stays open instead of closing after each use. You can also resize it to see more templates at once.
Since the sidebar stays visible after inserting a template, you can insert multiple templates, in multiple different places, faster than having to reopen the Briskine Dialog for each one.
Open the Briskine Sidebar
To open the sidebar, right-click anywhere on the page and go to Briskine → Open sidebar.
If you're using a Chromium-based browser, such as Google Chrome, Brave, or Microsoft Edge, you can also open the sidebar from the toolbar: right-click the Briskine icon and select Open side panel.
This shortcut isn't available in Firefox, so use the right-click context menu instead.
Insert templates
You can insert a template from the sidebar in two steps.
- Press, or focus, the text field where you want to insert the template.
- Press the template in the list to insert it.
You can also browse, search, and navigate the list with your keyboard, just like in the Briskine Dialog.
Because of a limitation in browsers at the moment, we cannot focus the text field after a template was inserted. You'll need to manually press on the text field again before you start typing.
Because of this limitation, Cursors will not work correctly when inserting a template from the sidebar.
Insert templates in Google Docs
The sidebar is currently the only way to insert Briskine templates in Google Docs.
The Briskine Dialog, Template Shortcuts, and Context Menu don't support Google Docs yet.