Hovercat

A email authoring application for structured repeatable email.

Open Source on Github
  • Separate your content from its presentation
  • Design HTML & Text templates using the HandleBars system
  • Edit your content in YAML
  • Send both HTML & Text multi-part emails. Great for accessiblity and users who prefer text only email.
  • Use as many templates as you like for different audiences.
  • Export your content to files to do whatever you need to.
  • Send directly using SMTP or GMAIL
  • Use Bitly to shorten & track your URLs
  • No server required. Work offline when you need to.

Content in YAML

Bit.ly UI

Editing a Text Template

Sending Email

Template Management

Configuration

Installing on Fedora

Download the latest RPM from here and rpm -ivh packagename

OR

  1. Add the following to /etc/yum.repos.d/hovercat.repo:

    [Hovercat]
name=Hovercat Repository
baseurl=http://shinysparkly.com/hovercat/repo
gpgcheck=0

  2. Install: sudo dnf install hovercat

  3. Launch hovercat from GNOME Shell launcher.

Upgrading on Fedora

sudo dnf update should do the trick.
But you might have to do sudo dnf clean all first.

Installing on OSX

TODO

Building

TODO