Use templates for posts

This page shows you how to use, make and manage templates. A template is the shape a Recompose pours your material into: a purpose, an ordered list of sections, and a preset voice, hook and call to action.

The built-in templates

Template	Good for	Voice	Opens with	Ends with
The Misconception	Clearing up a false belief	Warm	A question	A question
Bold Claim plus Story	A contrarian claim earned with experience	Direct	A bold claim	No call to action
Before / After / Bridge	A change, and how to make it	Practitioner	A story	No call to action
Listicle	A short numbered set of ideas	Mass audience	A question	A question
Numbers / Teardown	Taking a real number apart	Practitioner	A stat	A question

Use a template

Open the rewrite recipe and choose Recompose as the Mode.
In Recompose details, choose a Template.
Fill in the Topic if the template asks for one.
Change the Sections, Hook or Call to action for this post if you like. These changes apply to this rewrite only.
Select Done, then Rewrite.

If the template reads best in another voice, the recipe says so.

Make your own template

Set up a Recompose in the recipe the way you want it: sections, hook, call to action.
Select Save current as template and give it a name.

Your template appears in the Template list as one of yours.

Manage templates in Settings

Open Settings, then the Templates tab. For each template you can change its title, Purpose and Topic prompt. To change its sections, hook or call to action, use the recipe and Save current as template.

Button	What it does
Duplicate	Copies the template under a new name.
Reset	Takes an edited built-in back to the original.
Delete	Removes one of your own templates.
Export	Saves one template, or with the button at the bottom, your whole library, to a file.
Import	Loads templates from a file. A name already in use gets a number added.

Limits

One to ten sections per template.
A list section holds one to ten items.
No hashtags in any template field. PlainSpeak does not add tags to posts.