Share your draft

Want a colleague to launch the same campaign from their own Google account? You can't share a Gmail draft directly between accounts, but you can use a Gmail template to pass it along. Your colleague recreates it as a draft and sends it with YAMM like any other.

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The preferred way to collaborate on a draft is to write it together in Google Docs — several people can co-edit the same document, then create a Gmail draft from it directly.

Save your draft as a Gmail template

Gmail's Templates feature lets you save your draft so you can reuse it in a new email.

1. In Gmail, enable Templates: click the gear icon > See all settings > Advanced > Templates > Enable, then Save Changes.

   

2. Compose your draft, then click the three dots (⋮) at the bottom of the window > Templates > Save draft as template > Save as new template.

   

3. Click Save.

   

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A template's name and its email subject line are one and the same — renaming the template also changes the subject line your recipients see.

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Saved templates don't include attachments. We also recommend leaving your email signature out of the template to avoid duplication.

Send the template to your colleague

1. Compose a new email, then click the three dots (⋮) at the bottom of the window > Templates > your template.

   

2. Send it to your colleague.

3. Your colleague copies the subject line and the content of the email you sent them into a new email, leaving the To field empty.

4. Gmail automatically saves it in your colleague's Drafts folder, ready to send with YAMM.

   

What's next

• Send a test email to preview the email template.

• Launch your campaign.