KM Ask and Prompt for Snippet. (KM V11+)

[jonathonl]

I have just come across this new feature ...
Has anybody written any macros using
Ask and The Prompt for Snippet, which were added to KM in V11+
If so, what was behind your choice of using this feature.

See

https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/token/Ask

and

https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Prompt_for_Snippet

[griffman]

I put it to use by turning it into a customized version of a Prompt for User Input dialog

Creating variables from Prompt for Snippet (v11) action

I love the new Prompt for Snippet action in v11. It's got a number of uses, including editing multi-line variables, and obviously, collecting a chunk of text for use elsewhere. But I wanted to use it for something else: As a simple multi-variable input form. Yes, you can do this with the Prompt for User Input action, but maybe you want more text around the inputs to help the user understand what's being requested. Or maybe you have a ton of inputs, and setting up a long Prompt for User Input ac…

-rob.

[Nige_S]

@jonathonl

If so, what was behind your choice of using this feature.

I think the wiki's page shows it well -- an user-friendly, context-enhanced, method for data entry. A nice middle ground between the bare-bones "this variable, that variable, other variable" of "Prompt for User Input" and the almost infinite possibilities -- involving almost infinite work -- of the "Custom HTML Prompt".