Love, love, love canned replies. They save me so much time.
AND, in my fantasy, I have hotkeys to automatically apply my most used ones. So that instead of
[move hand from keyboard to mouse] → [cog] → Canned replies → [scroll] → [clipboard button]
It’s just
Ctrl-Shift-3
Or whatever
I recently added hot keys to a plugin that I am developing. I don’t think it would be that hard to add keyboard short cuts.
I’d be curious to see the results of Jay’s work. You might also want to take a look at https://espanso.org/
Takes a little bit of getting used to, but gives you the option of providing canned replies everywhere, simply by typing a certain combination of words/text. So you could just type hello1 and it would replace hello1 with a welcome message, regardless of whether or not you are in discourse, outlook etc.