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Reply Draft Templates

Draft templates for texts and emails you keep postponing.

How to use it

  1. Pick the situation (late reply, decline, reschedule).
  2. Use the template, add one personal line.
  3. Send within 2 minutes of opening it.

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Print at 100% / Actual size and set margins to None. Turn on borderless printing if your printer offers it — the card is designed to bleed to the edge of the paper.

Preview — prints at exactly 3 × 5 in (76 × 127 mm).

Reply Draft Templates

Draft templates for texts and emails you keep postponing

  1. 1Pick the situation (late reply, decline, reschedule).
  2. 2Use the template, add one personal line.
  3. 3Send within 2 minutes of opening it.

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Cut along the dashed line. Check that your print dialog says 100 percent, not “Fit to page”.

A started reply is easier to finish than a dreaded one. Templates start you.

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Draft templates for texts and emails you keep postponing.

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