gog-html-email_skill

Overview

This skill provides ready-to-use HTML email templates and a simple sed-based workflow to send styled emails via the gog CLI. It streamlines creating professional, celebratory, and event-specific emails while preserving email-client compatibility. Use the templates to avoid manually composing HTML and ensure consistent layout and inline CSS.

How this skill works

Templates live in the templates/ directory as single-line HTML with bracketed placeholders like [NAME] and [MESSAGE]. Read a template, replace placeholders with sed commands (or create a custom variant), then send with gog gmail send --body-html. Templates use inline CSS and a 600px max width to maximize cross-client rendering.

When to use it

• Sending professional messages, meeting invites, invoices, or project updates
• Delivering newsletters, announcements, or call-to-action emails with buttons
• Sending holiday, religious, or celebration greetings (Eid, Jummah, birthdays)
• Creating multi-paragraph or long-form email content without manual HTML crafting
• Customizing colors, fonts, or layout while preserving tested structure

Best practices

• Always read templates from workspace/skills/gog-html-email/templates and replace placeholders via sed; do not hand-build HTML strings
• Keep templates single-line and use inline CSS for broad email client support
• Test emails by sending to yourself and viewing in Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail before wide distribution
• Replace every [PLACEHOLDER] to avoid sending template tokens to recipients
• For multi-paragraph content, inject separate <p> tags for each paragraph to preserve spacing

Example use cases

• Quick project check-in using basic.html and replacing [NAME], [MESSAGE], [SIGNATURE]
• Schedule a meeting with meeting.html by supplying TOPIC, DATE, TIME, DURATION, LOCATION, and SIGNATURE
• Send a newsletter using newsletter.html with section titles and contents replaced via sed
• Deliver a payment notice using invoice.html with INVOICE_NUMBER, AMOUNT, DUE_DATE, and PAYMENT_URL
• Create a celebration email (birthday, anniversary, Eid) by selecting the occasion template and replacing NAME, MESSAGE, and SIGNATURE