diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 117c18b..9ab5d28 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,6 @@ dist/
 server/data/
 .vite/
 coverage/
+
+# Worktrees used by parallel agents; never part of a commit.
+.claude/worktrees/
diff --git a/FEATURES.md b/FEATURES.md
index 0a2b46b..f78ce3e 100644
--- a/FEATURES.md
+++ b/FEATURES.md
@@ -110,6 +110,21 @@ every drag.
 - **Hold a folder** in the drawer for the menu its ⋮ button opens.
 - **Pull the message list** down to refresh it.
 - **Drag in from the left edge** of a conversation to go back to the list.
+- **Swipe the calendar sideways** in day or month view to step to the next
+  period or back — dragging left pulls the next one in from the right, the way
+  paper and every phone do it. Week and agenda scroll through a range rather
+  than turning to the next one, so a sideways flick would not obviously mean
+  anything there and does nothing. A drag that begins on an event is left
+  alone, which keeps dragging an event to move it available to be built later
+  without having to be untangled from this first.
+
+  It asks for a longer drag than a row swipe does, and not because the
+  consequence is bigger — stepping back undoes it, while a swiped row has
+  already been archived. It is because this gesture has no way to change its
+  mind: a row slides open as it goes, so the strip underneath names what will
+  happen and letting go early calls it off, and a toast offers Undo afterwards.
+  Stepping the calendar shows nothing on the way and offers nothing after, so
+  the distance is the only chance to not mean it.
 
 The toolbar's refresh button and the thread's back arrow both stay. A gesture
 with no visible control is one only the people who already know about it can
@@ -150,6 +165,21 @@ Archive, delete, spam, star, mark read/unread, move and label all offer **Undo**
 in the toast that follows, and the undo restores the previous state rather than
 guessing at an inverse.
 
+**Archive by date** files into `Archive/<year>` or `Archive/<year>/<month>`,
+creating the folders as needed and reusing them after that — including ones
+made by hand or by another client. The names are numeric and zero-padded
+(`2026`, `2026/09`) rather than month names, because these are real server-side
+mailboxes: every other client sees them, a folder created as "September" by
+someone reading in English stays "September" for the same account read in
+Japanese, and `09` sorts between `08` and `10` where a name does not. The date
+is read in the reader's own timezone, so it agrees with the date shown against
+the message in the list.
+
+A selection spanning two months is two destinations, not one, and both are
+written; the menu names the folder where there is a single answer and describes
+the rule where there is not, and the toast afterwards says how many folders it
+touched. One Undo puts the whole selection back wherever it came from.
+
 `Delete` moves to the bin. **Empty** destroys, and is offered only on Deleted
 Items and Junk Mail — enforced where the action happens, not merely hidden in
 the menu. Emptying Junk destroys rather than moving to the bin, because routing
@@ -321,7 +351,16 @@ minimisable and maximisable; full-screen on mobile.
   identity. Signature images live in Files too and are turned into inline
   `cid:` parts when the message is sent.
 - **Templates**: named subject + body, inserted into any draft, managed in
-  Settings.
+  Settings. Both carry **placeholders** — `{{recipientName}}`,
+  `{{recipientFirstName}}`, `{{recipientEmail}}`, `{{myName}}`, `{{myEmail}}`,
+  `{{subject}}`, `{{date}}` and `{{time}}` — filled at the moment the template
+  is inserted, so what they came to is visible and editable before anything is
+  sent rather than changing under the message afterwards. Dates and times
+  follow the same format settings as the rest of the app. A placeholder that
+  cannot be answered yet — a recipient's name on a draft nobody has addressed —
+  is **left in the body exactly as written**, because substituting an empty
+  string there produces "Hi ,", a greeting that is wrong rather than one that
+  is visibly unfinished. A name that is not a placeholder is left alone too.
 - **Attachments** by picking or dragging onto the composer, with progress per
   file and the size limit the server states (`MAX_UPLOAD_BYTES`, 50 MB by
   default). A pasted image is inserted inline instead, and pasted HTML is
diff --git a/web/src/lib/__tests__/archiveDate.test.ts b/web/src/lib/__tests__/archiveDate.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ee9304c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/src/lib/__tests__/archiveDate.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { archiveSegments, archivePath, groupByArchivePath } from "@/lib/archiveDate";
+
+/**
+ * The dates below are written as local-time strings on purpose. The segments
+ * follow the reader's timezone, so a test pinned to UTC instants would pass or
+ * fail depending on where it ran.
+ */
+describe("archiveSegments", () => {
+  it("gives the year, and the zero-padded month", () => {
+    expect(archiveSegments("2026-09-04T10:00:00", "year")).toEqual(["2026"]);
+    expect(archiveSegments("2026-09-04T10:00:00", "month")).toEqual(["2026", "09"]);
+  });
+
+  it("zero-pads every month below October, so the folders sort", () => {
+    expect(archiveSegments("2026-01-15T10:00:00", "month")).toEqual(["2026", "01"]);
+    expect(archiveSegments("2026-10-15T10:00:00", "month")).toEqual(["2026", "10"]);
+    expect(archiveSegments("2026-12-15T10:00:00", "month")).toEqual(["2026", "12"]);
+  });
+
+  it("returns nothing to append when the date cannot be read", () => {
+    // Archive itself, rather than a folder named after a guess.
+    expect(archiveSegments(null, "month")).toEqual([]);
+    expect(archiveSegments(undefined, "month")).toEqual([]);
+    expect(archiveSegments("", "month")).toEqual([]);
+    expect(archiveSegments("not a date", "month")).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("joins to a path", () => {
+    expect(archivePath(["2026", "09"])).toBe("2026/09");
+    expect(archivePath([])).toBe("");
+  });
+});
+
+describe("groupByArchivePath", () => {
+  it("keeps one destination for a selection from one month", () => {
+    const groups = groupByArchivePath(
+      [
+        { id: "a", receivedAt: "2026-09-04T10:00:00" },
+        { id: "b", receivedAt: "2026-09-28T10:00:00" },
+      ],
+      "month",
+    );
+    expect(groups).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(groups[0]!.segments).toEqual(["2026", "09"]);
+    expect(groups[0]!.ids).toEqual(["a", "b"]);
+  });
+
+  it("splits a selection that spans months, which is the case that matters", () => {
+    const groups = groupByArchivePath(
+      [
+        { id: "a", receivedAt: "2026-09-04T10:00:00" },
+        { id: "b", receivedAt: "2026-08-30T10:00:00" },
+        { id: "c", receivedAt: "2026-09-01T10:00:00" },
+      ],
+      "month",
+    );
+    expect(groups.map((g) => g.segments)).toEqual([
+      ["2026", "09"],
+      ["2026", "08"],
+    ]);
+    expect(groups[0]!.ids).toEqual(["a", "c"]);
+    expect(groups[1]!.ids).toEqual(["b"]);
+  });
+
+  it("collapses the same span back to one group at year granularity", () => {
+    const entries = [
+      { id: "a", receivedAt: "2026-09-04T10:00:00" },
+      { id: "b", receivedAt: "2026-02-28T10:00:00" },
+    ];
+    expect(groupByArchivePath(entries, "month")).toHaveLength(2);
+    expect(groupByArchivePath(entries, "year")).toHaveLength(1);
+  });
+
+  it("orders groups by where their first message appeared", () => {
+    const groups = groupByArchivePath(
+      [
+        { id: "a", receivedAt: "2024-01-04T10:00:00" },
+        { id: "b", receivedAt: "2026-01-04T10:00:00" },
+      ],
+      "year",
+    );
+    expect(groups.map((g) => archivePath(g.segments))).toEqual(["2024", "2026"]);
+  });
+
+  it("gathers the undatable ones into their own group, bound for Archive itself", () => {
+    const groups = groupByArchivePath(
+      [
+        { id: "a", receivedAt: "2026-09-04T10:00:00" },
+        { id: "b", receivedAt: null },
+        { id: "c", receivedAt: "bad" },
+      ],
+      "month",
+    );
+    expect(groups).toHaveLength(2);
+    expect(groups[1]!.segments).toEqual([]);
+    expect(groups[1]!.ids).toEqual(["b", "c"]);
+  });
+
+  it("has nothing to do with an empty selection", () => {
+    expect(groupByArchivePath([], "month")).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/web/src/lib/__tests__/swipeNav.test.ts b/web/src/lib/__tests__/swipeNav.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..03041bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/src/lib/__tests__/swipeNav.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { navSwipeThreshold, swipeNavDirection, swipeThreshold, lockAxis } from "@/lib/touch";
+
+describe("navSwipeThreshold", () => {
+  it("asks for more travel than a row swipe does, at every width", () => {
+    // Not because the consequence is bigger -- stepping back undoes it -- but
+    // because this gesture reveals nothing on the way and offers no Undo
+    // after, so the distance is the only chance to not mean it.
+    for (const width of [320, 360, 414, 768, 1024]) {
+      expect(navSwipeThreshold(width)).toBeGreaterThan(swipeThreshold(width));
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("is a share of the width, bounded at both ends", () => {
+    expect(navSwipeThreshold(360)).toBe(108);
+    expect(navSwipeThreshold(200)).toBe(80); // floor
+    expect(navSwipeThreshold(1000)).toBe(180); // ceiling
+  });
+});
+
+describe("swipeNavDirection", () => {
+  const W = 400; // threshold is 120 at this width
+
+  it("goes forward when the finger drags left, the way pages turn", () => {
+    expect(swipeNavDirection(-200, W)).toBe(1);
+  });
+
+  it("goes back when the finger drags right", () => {
+    expect(swipeNavDirection(200, W)).toBe(-1);
+  });
+
+  it("does nothing short of the threshold, in either direction", () => {
+    expect(swipeNavDirection(-60, W)).toBe(0);
+    expect(swipeNavDirection(60, W)).toBe(0);
+    expect(swipeNavDirection(0, W)).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("fires exactly at the threshold and not a pixel before", () => {
+    const at = navSwipeThreshold(W);
+    expect(swipeNavDirection(-at, W)).toBe(1);
+    expect(swipeNavDirection(-(at - 1), W)).toBe(0);
+    expect(swipeNavDirection(at, W)).toBe(-1);
+    expect(swipeNavDirection(at - 1, W)).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("scales with the width, so a tablet asks for more than a phone", () => {
+    // The same 120px drag commits on a narrow screen and does not on a wide one.
+    expect(swipeNavDirection(-120, 360)).toBe(1);
+    expect(swipeNavDirection(-120, 1024)).toBe(0);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("the axis lock this shares with the row swipe", () => {
+  it("keeps a mostly-vertical drag as a scroll, which is what the day grid needs", () => {
+    // The day view scrolls through the hours; a scroll misread as a swipe
+    // throws the reader into another day.
+    expect(lockAxis(20, 30)).toBe("y");
+    expect(lockAxis(30, 25)).toBe("y");
+  });
+
+  it("commits to sideways only when it is clearly sideways", () => {
+    expect(lockAxis(40, 10)).toBe("x");
+  });
+
+  it("is undecided until the drag has moved at all", () => {
+    expect(lockAxis(2, 2)).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/web/src/lib/__tests__/templatePlaceholders.test.ts b/web/src/lib/__tests__/templatePlaceholders.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..93ffbfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/src/lib/__tests__/templatePlaceholders.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { fillPlaceholders, PLACEHOLDER_NAMES, type PlaceholderContext } from "@/lib/templatePlaceholders";
+
+const AT = new Date("2026-03-04T15:07:00Z");
+
+function ctx(over: Partial<PlaceholderContext> = {}): PlaceholderContext {
+  return {
+    to: [{ name: "Ada Lovelace", email: "ada@example.com" }],
+    from: { name: "Grace Hopper", email: "grace@example.com" },
+    subject: "Quarterly report",
+    now: AT,
+    ...over,
+  };
+}
+
+describe("fillPlaceholders", () => {
+  it("fills the names it knows", () => {
+    expect(fillPlaceholders("Hi {{recipientFirstName}},", ctx(), { html: true })).toBe("Hi Ada,");
+    expect(fillPlaceholders("{{recipientName}} <{{recipientEmail}}>", ctx(), { html: false })).toBe("Ada Lovelace <ada@example.com>");
+    expect(fillPlaceholders("-- {{myName}}", ctx(), { html: true })).toBe("-- Grace Hopper");
+    expect(fillPlaceholders("Re: {{subject}}", ctx(), { html: false })).toBe("Re: Quarterly report");
+  });
+
+  it("tolerates spaces inside the braces but not a different case", () => {
+    expect(fillPlaceholders("{{ myEmail }}", ctx(), { html: false })).toBe("grace@example.com");
+    expect(fillPlaceholders("{{MyEmail}}", ctx(), { html: false })).toBe("{{MyEmail}}");
+  });
+
+  it("leaves a placeholder it cannot answer exactly as written", () => {
+    // The case the design is about: a template inserted before the message is
+    // addressed. "Hi ," would be wrong; "Hi {{recipientFirstName}}," is unfinished.
+    const unaddressed = ctx({ to: [] });
+    expect(fillPlaceholders("Hi {{recipientFirstName}},", unaddressed, { html: true })).toBe("Hi {{recipientFirstName}},");
+    expect(fillPlaceholders("{{recipientEmail}}", unaddressed, { html: false })).toBe("{{recipientEmail}}");
+    expect(fillPlaceholders("{{myName}}", ctx({ from: null }), { html: false })).toBe("{{myName}}");
+  });
+
+  it("leaves a name it does not know alone rather than eating it", () => {
+    expect(fillPlaceholders("{{nonsense}} {{}} {{ }}", ctx(), { html: true })).toBe("{{nonsense}} {{}} {{ }}");
+  });
+
+  it("falls back to the local part when a recipient has no name", () => {
+    const c = ctx({ to: [{ name: null, email: "ada.lovelace@example.com" }] });
+    expect(fillPlaceholders("{{recipientName}}", c, { html: false })).toBe("ada.lovelace");
+    expect(fillPlaceholders("{{recipientFirstName}}", c, { html: false })).toBe("ada.lovelace");
+  });
+
+  it("escapes a substituted value on the way into HTML, and not into a subject", () => {
+    const c = ctx({ to: [{ name: 'Ada <script>alert("x")</script>', email: "ada@example.com" }] });
+    expect(fillPlaceholders("{{recipientName}}", c, { html: true })).not.toContain("<script>");
+    expect(fillPlaceholders("{{recipientName}}", c, { html: true })).toContain("&lt;script&gt;");
+    expect(fillPlaceholders("{{recipientName}}", c, { html: false })).toContain("<script>");
+  });
+
+  it("repeats a placeholder as many times as it appears", () => {
+    expect(fillPlaceholders("{{recipientFirstName}} {{recipientFirstName}}", ctx(), { html: true })).toBe("Ada Ada");
+  });
+
+  it("answers date and time from the injected clock", () => {
+    const date = fillPlaceholders("{{date}}", ctx(), { html: false });
+    const time = fillPlaceholders("{{time}}", ctx(), { html: false });
+    expect(date).not.toBe("{{date}}");
+    expect(date).toMatch(/2026/);
+    expect(time).not.toBe("{{time}}");
+    expect(time).toMatch(/\d/);
+  });
+
+  it("names every resolver in the list Settings shows", () => {
+    expect(PLACEHOLDER_NAMES).toEqual([
+      "recipientName",
+      "recipientFirstName",
+      "recipientEmail",
+      "myName",
+      "myEmail",
+      "subject",
+      "date",
+      "time",
+    ]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/web/src/lib/archiveDate.ts b/web/src/lib/archiveDate.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b2f9d3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/src/lib/archiveDate.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+/**
+ * Where a message goes when it is archived by date.
+ *
+ * The folders are **numeric and zero-padded** -- `Archive/2026`,
+ * `Archive/2026/09` -- and deliberately not month names. Two reasons, both
+ * about the fact that these are real server-side mailboxes rather than
+ * anything of ihasmail's:
+ *
+ *  - Every other client sees them. A folder created as "September" by someone
+ *    reading in English stays "September" for the same account read in
+ *    Japanese, because the name is stored, not translated. A number reads the
+ *    same in every language ihasmail ships.
+ *  - They sort. `09` sits between `08` and `10` in any folder list; "September"
+ *    sits between "October" and nothing useful.
+ *
+ * The date is read in the reader's own timezone rather than UTC, because it has
+ * to agree with the date shown against the message in the list. A message that
+ * arrived at 00:30 UTC on 1 September is dated 31 August in New York, and
+ * filing it under `09` while the list says August would be the app disagreeing
+ * with itself.
+ */
+
+export type ArchiveGranularity = "year" | "month";
+
+/**
+ * Path segments below the Archive folder. Empty means "no dated subfolder" --
+ * a message whose date cannot be read belongs in Archive itself rather than in
+ * a folder named after a guess.
+ */
+export function archiveSegments(when: string | null | undefined, granularity: ArchiveGranularity): string[] {
+  if (!when) return [];
+  const d = new Date(when);
+  if (Number.isNaN(d.getTime())) return [];
+  const year = String(d.getFullYear());
+  if (granularity === "year") return [year];
+  return [year, String(d.getMonth() + 1).padStart(2, "0")];
+}
+
+/** The segments as one string, for grouping and for naming the destination. */
+export function archivePath(segments: string[]): string {
+  return segments.join("/");
+}
+
+export interface ArchiveGroup {
+  segments: string[];
+  ids: string[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Split a selection by where each message is going.
+ *
+ * Archiving by month across a selection spanning two months is two
+ * destinations, not one, so this is the shape the caller needs -- and the
+ * reason the action cannot simply resolve one folder up front. Groups come
+ * back in the order their first message appeared, so the toast that follows
+ * names them in the order the reader was looking at.
+ */
+export function groupByArchivePath(
+  entries: Array<{ id: string; receivedAt?: string | null }>,
+  granularity: ArchiveGranularity,
+): ArchiveGroup[] {
+  const groups = new Map<string, ArchiveGroup>();
+  for (const e of entries) {
+    const segments = archiveSegments(e.receivedAt, granularity);
+    const key = archivePath(segments);
+    const existing = groups.get(key);
+    if (existing) existing.ids.push(e.id);
+    else groups.set(key, { segments, ids: [e.id] });
+  }
+  return [...groups.values()];
+}
diff --git a/web/src/lib/templatePlaceholders.ts b/web/src/lib/templatePlaceholders.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..35224a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/src/lib/templatePlaceholders.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+/**
+ * Placeholders in templates, filled at the moment one is inserted.
+ *
+ * Two rules decide the whole design:
+ *
+ *  - **An unresolved placeholder is left exactly as written.** A template
+ *    inserted before the message is addressed cannot know who it is going to,
+ *    and substituting an empty string there produces "Hi ," -- a greeting that
+ *    is wrong rather than unfinished. Leaving `{{recipientName}}` in the body
+ *    says which word is still missing, and it can be typed over. It is also
+ *    what makes inserting a template early a valid thing to do rather than a
+ *    mistake to undo.
+ *  - **A name that is not a placeholder is left alone too.** Templates are
+ *    written by hand and `{{` is not reserved anywhere else, but a body that
+ *    silently ate an unrecognised token would be worse than one that shows it.
+ *
+ * Dates and times go through `datetime.ts` rather than `toLocaleDateString`,
+ * so a template follows the same date order and clock the rest of the app was
+ * told to use.
+ */
+import { escapeHtml } from "./text";
+import { formatDate, formatClock } from "./datetime";
+import type { EmailAddress } from "@/jmap/types";
+
+export interface PlaceholderContext {
+  /** Where the message is addressed, in order; the first is what the singular names refer to. */
+  to: EmailAddress[];
+  /** The identity the draft is sending as. */
+  from: { name?: string | null; email?: string | null } | null;
+  subject: string;
+  /** Injectable so tests do not depend on the clock. */
+  now?: Date;
+}
+
+/**
+ * What each name resolves to, in the order they are shown in Settings.
+ * `null` from a resolver means "cannot be answered yet", which is the case
+ * the rule above is about -- distinct from an empty string, which is an answer.
+ */
+const RESOLVERS: Record<string, (c: PlaceholderContext) => string | null> = {
+  recipientName: (c) => personalName(c.to[0]),
+  recipientFirstName: (c) => {
+    const n = personalName(c.to[0]);
+    return n ? (n.split(/\s+/)[0] ?? null) : null;
+  },
+  recipientEmail: (c) => c.to[0]?.email || null,
+  myName: (c) => c.from?.name?.trim() || null,
+  myEmail: (c) => c.from?.email || null,
+  subject: (c) => c.subject || null,
+  date: (c) => formatDate(c.now ?? new Date()),
+  time: (c) => formatClock(c.now ?? new Date()),
+};
+
+/** The names, for the list shown under the template editor. */
+export const PLACEHOLDER_NAMES = Object.keys(RESOLVERS);
+
+/**
+ * A recipient's human name: what they are called if we know it, otherwise the
+ * local part, which for `firstname.lastname@` is still better than the whole
+ * address in the middle of a sentence. Never the domain.
+ */
+function personalName(a: EmailAddress | undefined): string | null {
+  if (!a) return null;
+  const name = a.name?.trim();
+  if (name) return name;
+  const local = (a.email ?? "").split("@")[0] ?? "";
+  return local || null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * `{{ name }}` tolerates the spaces; the name itself is matched exactly,
+ * because `{{Date}}` meaning `{{date}}` would make the list in Settings a
+ * suggestion rather than the set.
+ */
+const TOKEN = /\{\{\s*([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*)\s*\}\}/g;
+
+/**
+ * Fill `input`, escaping substituted values when the destination is HTML.
+ * Escaping happens here rather than at the call site because the values come
+ * from contact cards and typed addresses -- a display name is not trusted
+ * markup, and the body it lands in is inserted as HTML.
+ */
+export function fillPlaceholders(input: string, ctx: PlaceholderContext, opts: { html: boolean }): string {
+  return input.replace(TOKEN, (whole, name: string) => {
+    const resolver = RESOLVERS[name];
+    if (!resolver) return whole;
+    const value = resolver(ctx);
+    if (value === null) return whole;
+    return opts.html ? escapeHtml(value) : value;
+  });
+}
diff --git a/web/src/lib/touch.ts b/web/src/lib/touch.ts
index 14df607..a8f175a 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/touch.ts
+++ b/web/src/lib/touch.ts
@@ -490,3 +490,129 @@ export function useEdgeBack(el: HTMLElement | null, onBack: () => void, enabled:
     };
   }, [el, enabled]);
 }
+
+/**
+ * How far a horizontal drag must travel before it moves the calendar to
+ * another day or month.
+ *
+ * Further than a row swipe, and not because the consequence is bigger --
+ * stepping a calendar is undone by stepping back, while a swiped row has
+ * already been archived. It is because this gesture has no way to change its
+ * mind. A row slides open as it goes, so the strip underneath names what is
+ * about to happen and letting go early calls it off, and a toast offers Undo
+ * afterwards. Stepping the calendar shows nothing on the way and offers
+ * nothing after, so the distance is the only chance to not mean it.
+ */
+export function navSwipeThreshold(width: number): number {
+  return Math.max(80, Math.min(180, width * 0.3));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Which way a finished drag sends the view: -1 back, +1 forward, 0 nowhere.
+ *
+ * Dragging left pulls the next period in from the right, which is how paper,
+ * phones and every other calendar behave. (It would need mirroring for a
+ * right-to-left interface; there is not one yet, and the day there is, this is
+ * one of the places that has to know.)
+ */
+export function swipeNavDirection(dx: number, width: number): -1 | 0 | 1 {
+  const threshold = navSwipeThreshold(width);
+  if (dx <= -threshold) return 1;
+  if (dx >= threshold) return -1;
+  return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Swipe sideways across a calendar to step it a period at a time.
+ *
+ * Three things it deliberately does not do:
+ *
+ *  - **No visual drag.** The row swipe slides the row open because the strip
+ *    underneath has to name which of six actions is about to happen. Stepping
+ *    a calendar has two outcomes and the direction of the finger already says
+ *    which, so there is nothing to reveal -- and translating the grid would
+ *    break the sticky day header, since a transform makes a containing block.
+ *    The threshold is reported by the vibration motor instead, which is what
+ *    the haptics are for: a swipe fires as the finger passes a line it cannot
+ *    see.
+ *  - **It does not start on an event.** A drag beginning on an event chip is
+ *    left alone, so that moving an event by dragging it stays available to be
+ *    built without having to be untangled from this first. Which gesture is
+ *    meant is decidable at the moment the finger lands, and that is the only
+ *    moment it can be decided cleanly.
+ *  - **It does not start on the toolbar.** Buttons live there.
+ *
+ * The axis lock is the shared one, so it keeps the same bias towards the
+ * vertical: the day grid scrolls through the hours, and a scroll misread as a
+ * swipe throws the reader into another day.
+ */
+export function useSwipeNav(
+  el: HTMLElement | null,
+  opts: { onStep: (n: -1 | 1) => void; enabled: boolean; ignore?: string },
+) {
+  const step = useRef(opts.onStep);
+  step.current = opts.onStep;
+  const { enabled, ignore } = opts;
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!el || !enabled) return;
+    let startX: number | null = null;
+    let startY = 0;
+    let axis: Axis = null;
+    let fired = false;
+
+    const onStart = (e: TouchEvent) => {
+      if (e.touches.length !== 1) return;
+      const t = e.touches[0]!;
+      if (ignore && (t.target as Element | null)?.closest?.(ignore)) return;
+      startX = t.clientX;
+      startY = t.clientY;
+      axis = null;
+      fired = false;
+    };
+
+    const onMove = (e: TouchEvent) => {
+      if (startX === null || e.touches.length !== 1) return;
+      const t = e.touches[0]!;
+      const dx = t.clientX - startX;
+      const dy = t.clientY - startY;
+      if (!axis) {
+        axis = lockAxis(dx, dy);
+        // Committed to scrolling: stay out of the way for the rest of the drag.
+        if (axis === "y") startX = null;
+        return;
+      }
+      if (axis !== "x") return;
+      // Once sideways, the browser must not also scroll.
+      if (e.cancelable) e.preventDefault();
+      if (!fired && swipeNavDirection(dx, el.clientWidth || window.innerWidth) !== 0) {
+        fired = true;
+        haptic();
+      }
+    };
+
+    const onEnd = (e: TouchEvent) => {
+      if (startX === null) return;
+      const t = e.changedTouches[0];
+      const dx = t ? t.clientX - startX : 0;
+      const wasX = axis === "x";
+      startX = null;
+      axis = null;
+      fired = false;
+      if (!wasX) return;
+      const dir = swipeNavDirection(dx, el.clientWidth || window.innerWidth);
+      if (dir !== 0) step.current(dir);
+    };
+
+    el.addEventListener("touchstart", onStart, { passive: true });
+    el.addEventListener("touchmove", onMove, { passive: false });
+    el.addEventListener("touchend", onEnd);
+    el.addEventListener("touchcancel", onEnd);
+    return () => {
+      el.removeEventListener("touchstart", onStart);
+      el.removeEventListener("touchmove", onMove);
+      el.removeEventListener("touchend", onEnd);
+      el.removeEventListener("touchcancel", onEnd);
+    };
+  }, [el, enabled, ignore]);
+}
diff --git a/web/src/store/__tests__/archive-by-date.test.ts b/web/src/store/__tests__/archive-by-date.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ec2119a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/src/store/__tests__/archive-by-date.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,188 @@
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import { CAP, client } from "@/jmap/client";
+import { useMail } from "@/store/mail";
+import { useToasts } from "@/ui/toast";
+import type { JmapSession, Mailbox } from "@/jmap/types";
+
+/**
+ * Archiving into a dated subfolder. The parts worth testing are the ones that
+ * touch the server: the folders get created once and reused after that, and a
+ * selection spanning two months becomes two moves rather than one.
+ */
+
+const ARCHIVE = "mbArchive";
+
+interface Created {
+  name: string;
+  parentId: string | null;
+}
+
+/** A server that holds a mailbox tree and records what was created and moved. */
+function server(initial: Array<Partial<Mailbox> & { id: string; name: string }> = []) {
+  const boxes = new Map<string, Partial<Mailbox> & { id: string; name: string }>();
+  boxes.set(ARCHIVE, { id: ARCHIVE, role: "archive", name: "Archive", parentId: null });
+  for (const b of initial) boxes.set(b.id, b);
+
+  const created: Created[] = [];
+  const moves: Array<{ id: string; to: string }> = [];
+  let counter = 0;
+
+  const fetchMock = vi.fn(async (_url: string, init: RequestInit) => {
+    const body = JSON.parse(init.body as string) as { methodCalls: [string, Record<string, unknown>, string][] };
+    const methodResponses = body.methodCalls.map(([name, args, id]) => {
+      if (name === "Mailbox/set" && args.create) {
+        const spec = (args.create as Record<string, { name: string; parentId: string | null }>).n!;
+        const newId = `mb-new-${++counter}`;
+        created.push({ name: spec.name, parentId: spec.parentId });
+        boxes.set(newId, { id: newId, name: spec.name, parentId: spec.parentId, role: null });
+        return [name, { accountId: "a1", oldState: "1", newState: "2", created: { n: { id: newId } }, notCreated: {} }, id];
+      }
+      if (name === "Mailbox/get") {
+        return [name, { accountId: "a1", state: "1", list: [...boxes.values()], notFound: [] }, id];
+      }
+      if (name === "Email/set" && args.update) {
+        for (const [emailId, patch] of Object.entries(args.update as Record<string, { mailboxIds?: Record<string, boolean> }>)) {
+          const to = Object.keys(patch.mailboxIds ?? {})[0];
+          if (to) moves.push({ id: emailId, to });
+        }
+        return [name, { accountId: "a1", oldState: "1", newState: "2", updated: {}, notUpdated: {} }, id];
+      }
+      return [name, { accountId: "a1", state: "1", list: [], notFound: [], ids: [], total: 0, queryState: "q", position: 0, canCalculateChanges: false }, id];
+    });
+    return { ok: true, status: 200, json: async () => ({ methodResponses, sessionState: "1" }) } as Response;
+  });
+  vi.stubGlobal("fetch", fetchMock);
+  return { created, moves, boxes };
+}
+
+const messages = () => useToasts.getState().toasts.map((t) => t.message);
+
+/** Two messages from September, one from August, all local time. */
+function seed() {
+  useMail.setState({
+    emails: {
+      e1: { id: "e1", receivedAt: "2026-09-04T10:00:00", mailboxIds: { mbInbox: true } },
+      e2: { id: "e2", receivedAt: "2026-09-28T10:00:00", mailboxIds: { mbInbox: true } },
+      e3: { id: "e3", receivedAt: "2026-08-30T10:00:00", mailboxIds: { mbInbox: true } },
+    } as never,
+  });
+}
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  client.session = {
+    capabilities: { [CAP.core]: { maxObjectsInGet: 500, maxObjectsInSet: 500 }, [CAP.mail]: {} },
+    accounts: {},
+    primaryAccounts: {},
+    state: "s1",
+  } as unknown as JmapSession;
+  useMail.setState({
+    accountId: "a1",
+    mailboxes: { [ARCHIVE]: { id: ARCHIVE, role: "archive", name: "Archive", parentId: null } } as never,
+    list: null,
+    emails: {},
+    selected: {},
+  });
+  useToasts.setState({ toasts: [] });
+  seed();
+});
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  vi.unstubAllGlobals();
+  vi.restoreAllMocks();
+});
+
+describe("archiveByDate", () => {
+  it("creates the year folder under Archive and files into it", async () => {
+    const s = server();
+    await useMail.getState().archiveByDate(["e1"], "year");
+    expect(s.created).toEqual([{ name: "2026", parentId: ARCHIVE }]);
+    expect(s.moves).toEqual([{ id: "e1", to: "mb-new-1" }]);
+  });
+
+  it("creates year then month, nesting the month inside the year", async () => {
+    const s = server();
+    await useMail.getState().archiveByDate(["e1"], "month");
+    expect(s.created).toEqual([
+      { name: "2026", parentId: ARCHIVE },
+      { name: "09", parentId: "mb-new-1" },
+    ]);
+    expect(s.moves).toEqual([{ id: "e1", to: "mb-new-2" }]);
+  });
+
+  it("reuses a folder that already exists rather than making a second one", async () => {
+    const s = server([
+      { id: "mb2026", name: "2026", parentId: ARCHIVE, role: null },
+      { id: "mb09", name: "09", parentId: "mb2026", role: null },
+    ]);
+    useMail.setState({
+      mailboxes: {
+        [ARCHIVE]: { id: ARCHIVE, role: "archive", name: "Archive", parentId: null },
+        mb2026: { id: "mb2026", name: "2026", parentId: ARCHIVE },
+        mb09: { id: "mb09", name: "09", parentId: "mb2026" },
+      } as never,
+    });
+    await useMail.getState().archiveByDate(["e1"], "month");
+    expect(s.created).toEqual([]);
+    expect(s.moves).toEqual([{ id: "e1", to: "mb09" }]);
+  });
+
+  it("splits a selection spanning two months into two destinations", async () => {
+    const s = server();
+    await useMail.getState().archiveByDate(["e1", "e2", "e3"], "month");
+    expect(s.created).toEqual([
+      { name: "2026", parentId: ARCHIVE },
+      { name: "09", parentId: "mb-new-1" },
+      // August reuses the 2026 folder made a moment ago, and adds 08 beside 09.
+      { name: "08", parentId: "mb-new-1" },
+    ]);
+    expect(s.moves).toEqual([
+      { id: "e1", to: "mb-new-2" },
+      { id: "e2", to: "mb-new-2" },
+      { id: "e3", to: "mb-new-3" },
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps the same selection to one folder at year granularity", async () => {
+    const s = server();
+    await useMail.getState().archiveByDate(["e1", "e2", "e3"], "year");
+    expect(s.created).toEqual([{ name: "2026", parentId: ARCHIVE }]);
+    expect(new Set(s.moves.map((m) => m.to))).toEqual(new Set(["mb-new-1"]));
+  });
+
+  it("files a message with no readable date into Archive itself", async () => {
+    const s = server();
+    useMail.setState({ emails: { e9: { id: "e9", receivedAt: null, mailboxIds: {} } } as never });
+    await useMail.getState().archiveByDate(["e9"], "month");
+    expect(s.created).toEqual([]);
+    expect(s.moves).toEqual([{ id: "e9", to: ARCHIVE }]);
+  });
+
+  it("raises one toast naming the folder, not one per group", async () => {
+    server();
+    await useMail.getState().archiveByDate(["e1"], "month");
+    expect(messages()).toEqual(["Conversation moved to Archive/2026/09"]);
+  });
+
+  it("says how many folders when the selection split, rather than naming one", async () => {
+    server();
+    await useMail.getState().archiveByDate(["e1", "e2", "e3"], "month");
+    expect(messages()).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(messages()[0]).toContain("2 folders");
+  });
+
+  it("does nothing at all without an Archive folder", async () => {
+    const s = server();
+    useMail.setState({ mailboxes: {} as never });
+    await useMail.getState().archiveByDate(["e1"], "month");
+    expect(s.created).toEqual([]);
+    expect(s.moves).toEqual([]);
+    expect(messages()[0]).toContain("No Archive folder");
+  });
+
+  it("has nothing to do with an empty selection", async () => {
+    const s = server();
+    await useMail.getState().archiveByDate([], "month");
+    expect(s.created).toEqual([]);
+    expect(s.moves).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/web/src/store/compose.ts b/web/src/store/compose.ts
index 1df1ba0..503b4de 100644
--- a/web/src/store/compose.ts
+++ b/web/src/store/compose.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import { ensureScheduledMailbox, useScheduled } from "./scheduled";
 import { formatScheduleTime, holdUntil } from "@/lib/schedule";
 import { t as translate } from "@/lib/i18n";
 import { settings } from "./settings";
+import { fillPlaceholders, type PlaceholderContext } from "@/lib/templatePlaceholders";
 
 export interface ComposeAttachment {
   id: string;
@@ -575,8 +576,17 @@ export const useCompose = create<ComposeState>((set, get) => ({
   insertTemplate(key, html, subject) {
     const d = get().drafts.find((x) => x.key === key);
     if (!d) return;
-    const patch: Partial<Draft> = { html: `<div>${sanitizeEditorHtml(html)}</div>${d.html}`, text: `${htmlToText(html)}\n${d.text}` };
-    if (subject && !d.subject) patch.subject = subject;
+    // Placeholders are filled against the draft as it stands right now, which
+    // is why this happens on insert rather than on send: what the template is
+    // filled with is visible and editable afterwards, instead of changing
+    // under the message between writing it and sending it.
+    const ident = d.identityId ? useMail.getState().identities.find((i) => i.id === d.identityId) : undefined;
+    const ctx: PlaceholderContext = { to: d.to, from: ident ? { name: ident.name, email: ident.email } : null, subject: d.subject };
+    // The body is filled once as HTML and the plain-text side derived from the
+    // result, so the two cannot disagree about what a placeholder came to.
+    const filled = fillPlaceholders(html, ctx, { html: true });
+    const patch: Partial<Draft> = { html: `<div>${sanitizeEditorHtml(filled)}</div>${d.html}`, text: `${htmlToText(filled)}\n${d.text}` };
+    if (subject && !d.subject) patch.subject = fillPlaceholders(subject, ctx, { html: false });
     get().update(key, patch);
   },
 }));
diff --git a/web/src/store/mail.ts b/web/src/store/mail.ts
index 9c25360..d74ab14 100644
--- a/web/src/store/mail.ts
+++ b/web/src/store/mail.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { create } from "zustand";
 import type { FolderRef } from "@/lib/sieveFolders";
 import { SPAM_HEADER_PROPS } from "@/lib/spamScore";
+import { groupByArchivePath, archivePath, type ArchiveGranularity } from "@/lib/archiveDate";
 import { JmapMethodError, chunk, client, setErrorMessage } from "@/jmap/client";
 import type {
   Comparator,
@@ -157,6 +158,8 @@ export interface MailState {
   trash(ids: Id[]): Promise<void>;
   destroy(ids: Id[]): Promise<void>;
   archive(ids: Id[]): Promise<void>;
+  /** Archive into a dated subfolder of Archive, creating the folders as needed. */
+  archiveByDate(ids: Id[], granularity: ArchiveGranularity): Promise<void>;
   spam(ids: Id[], isSpam: boolean): Promise<void>;
   emptyMailbox(mailboxId: Id): Promise<void>;
   /** Mark every unread message in a mailbox read; optionally its subfolders too. */
@@ -577,6 +580,66 @@ export const useMail = create<MailState>((set, get) => ({
     await get().move(ids, archiveId, { label: "Archive" });
   },
 
+  async archiveByDate(ids, granularity) {
+    const accountId = get().accountId;
+    const archiveId = get().roleId("archive") ?? get().roleId("all");
+    if (!accountId || !ids.length) return;
+    if (!archiveId) {
+      toast.error(t("No Archive folder found. Create one named “Archive” first."));
+      return;
+    }
+    const { emails } = get();
+    const groups = groupByArchivePath(ids.map((id) => ({ id, receivedAt: emails[id]?.receivedAt })), granularity);
+
+    // Where everything came from, captured before anything moves, so one Undo
+    // can put back a selection that went to several folders.
+    const prev: Record<Id, Record<Id, boolean>> = {};
+    for (const id of ids) prev[id] = emails[id]?.mailboxIds ?? {};
+
+    const moved: string[] = [];
+    try {
+      for (const group of groups) {
+        const target = await ensureFolderPath(get, archiveId, group.segments);
+        // Silent: each group would otherwise raise its own toast with its own
+        // Undo, and undoing one third of a move is not what anybody meant.
+        await get().move(group.ids, target, { silent: true });
+        moved.push(group.segments.length ? `Archive/${archivePath(group.segments)}` : "Archive");
+      }
+    } catch (err) {
+      toast.error(t("Archive failed: {error}", { error: (err as Error).message }));
+      void get().getEmails(ids);
+      void get().refreshList();
+      return;
+    }
+
+    // One message naming every destination, because a selection that split
+    // across months should say so rather than claiming a single folder.
+    const where = moved.length === 1 ? moved[0]! : t("{count} folders", { count: String(moved.length) });
+    toast.show(
+      ids.length === 1
+        ? t("Conversation moved to {folder}", { folder: where })
+        : t("{count} conversations moved to {folder}", { count: String(ids.length), folder: where }),
+      {
+        action: {
+          label: "Undo",
+          onClick: async () => {
+            const undo: Record<Id, Record<string, unknown>> = {};
+            for (const id of ids) undo[id] = { mailboxIds: prev[id] };
+            await setEmails(accountId, undo);
+            set((st) => {
+              const next = { ...st.emails };
+              for (const id of ids) if (next[id]) next[id] = { ...next[id]!, mailboxIds: prev[id]! };
+              return { emails: next };
+            });
+            void get().refreshList();
+            void get().loadMailboxes();
+          },
+        },
+      },
+    );
+    void get().loadMailboxes();
+  },
+
   async spam(ids, isSpam) {
     const { roleId } = get();
     const target = isSpam ? roleId("junk") : roleId("inbox");
@@ -1083,6 +1146,27 @@ export function mailboxIcon(role: MailboxRole): string {
 
 export const ROLE_ORDER: Record<string, number> = { inbox: 0, flagged: 1, important: 2, drafts: 3, sent: 4, archive: 5, all: 6, junk: 7, trash: 8 };
 
+/**
+ * Resolve `parentId/segments...` to a mailbox id, creating what is missing.
+ *
+ * Reuses a folder that is already there rather than making a second one beside
+ * it, so archiving by month twice in the same month files into the same place
+ * -- including a folder somebody made by hand, or one another client made
+ * first, which is the usual way `Archive/2026` already exists.
+ *
+ * Sequential on purpose: each level is the next level's parent, and
+ * `createMailbox` reloads the tree, so the lookup for `09` can see the `2026`
+ * that was just created.
+ */
+async function ensureFolderPath(state: () => MailState, parentId: Id, segments: string[]): Promise<Id> {
+  let current = parentId;
+  for (const name of segments) {
+    const existing = Object.values(state().mailboxes).find((m) => m.parentId === current && m.name === name);
+    current = existing ? existing.id : await state().createMailbox(name, current);
+  }
+  return current;
+}
+
 /**
  * A folder and everything under it, with the paths they have right now.
  *
diff --git a/web/src/styles/app.css b/web/src/styles/app.css
index a482ae0..3100b0d 100644
--- a/web/src/styles/app.css
+++ b/web/src/styles/app.css
@@ -1386,3 +1386,8 @@ button.dp-open:disabled { cursor: default; opacity: .5; }
 .spam-weight { font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 12px; text-align: right; color: var(--fg-muted); }
 .spam-weight.bad { color: var(--danger); }
 .spam-weight.good { color: var(--success); }
+
+/* The placeholder reference under a template's body. */
+.placeholder-list { display: grid; grid-template-columns: auto 1fr; gap: 4px 12px; align-items: baseline; }
+.placeholder-row { display: contents; }
+.placeholder-list code { font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 12.5px; background: var(--bg-sunken); border: 1px solid var(--border); border-radius: 4px; padding: .1em .4em; white-space: nowrap; }
diff --git a/web/src/views/calendar/CalendarView.tsx b/web/src/views/calendar/CalendarView.tsx
index dcc323e..c4abcb8 100644
--- a/web/src/views/calendar/CalendarView.tsx
+++ b/web/src/views/calendar/CalendarView.tsx
@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@ import { ChevronLeft, ChevronRight, Plus, Calendar as CalIcon } from "lucide-rea
 import { useCalendar, participantAddresses, type EventInstance } from "@/store/calendar";
 import { useSettings } from "@/store/settings";
 import { addDays, addMonths, DAY_MS, endOfDay, isSameDay, isToday, monthGrid, roundToNext, startOfDay, startOfWeek, toLocalDateOnly, weekDays } from "@/lib/dates";
+import { useSwipeNav } from "@/lib/touch";
 import { formatMonthYear, formatTime } from "@/lib/format";
 import { formatDate, formatDateLong, formatDayMonth, formatHourLabel, formatWeekday, formatWeekdayDate } from "@/lib/datetime";
-import { Empty, useIsMobile } from "@/ui/misc";
+import { Empty, useIsMobile, useIsTouch } from "@/ui/misc";
 import { keyboard } from "@/lib/keyboard";
 import { EventPopover } from "./EventPopover";
 import { EventEditor, type EditorInit } from "./EventEditor";
@@ -90,6 +91,25 @@ export function CalendarView({ view: viewParam, date }: { view?: string; date?:
     else go(view, addDays(anchor, 30 * n));
   };
 
+  /*
+   * Swipe sideways to step the calendar, on a touchscreen only and only in the
+   * two views where a period is a page: day and month. Week and agenda scroll
+   * through a range rather than turning to the next one, so there is nothing a
+   * sideways flick would obviously mean.
+   *
+   * The buttons in the toolbar stay, and so does n/p. A gesture with no
+   * visible control is one only the people who already know about it can use.
+   */
+  const [mainEl, setMainEl] = useState<HTMLDivElement | null>(null);
+  const isTouch = useIsTouch();
+  useSwipeNav(mainEl, {
+    enabled: isTouch && (effectiveView === "day" || effectiveView === "month"),
+    onStep: (n) => step(n),
+    // Buttons live in the toolbar; an event is where a future drag-to-move
+    // gesture has to start, so this one keeps out of both.
+    ignore: ".cal-toolbar, .ev-chip, .ev-block, .agenda-ev",
+  });
+
   const openNew = useCallback(
     (start?: Date, end?: Date, allDay = false) => {
       const s = start ?? roundToNext(new Date(), 30);
@@ -147,7 +167,7 @@ export function CalendarView({ view: viewParam, date }: { view?: string; date?:
   };
 
   return (
-    <div className="cal-main">
+    <div className="cal-main" ref={setMainEl}>
       <div className="cal-toolbar">
         <button className="btn btn-sm" onClick={() => go(view, new Date())}>{translate("Today")}</button>
         <button className="icon-btn sm" onClick={() => step(-1)} aria-label={translate("Previous")}><ChevronLeft size={18} /></button>
diff --git a/web/src/views/mail/MessageList.tsx b/web/src/views/mail/MessageList.tsx
index 38e8b60..4640e4e 100644
--- a/web/src/views/mail/MessageList.tsx
+++ b/web/src/views/mail/MessageList.tsx
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 import { Fragment, memo, useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState, type DragEvent, type MouseEvent, type ReactNode } from "react";
 import { useVirtualizer } from "@tanstack/react-virtual";
-import { Archive, ArrowLeft, CalendarPlus, CheckSquare, FolderInput, PanelRight, PanelBottom, PanelTop, Filter, Inbox, Mail, MailOpen, MailPlus, MoreVertical, Paperclip, RefreshCw, Reply, Search, Star, Tag, Trash2, AlertOctagon, Forward, Eraser, ShieldCheck, X } from "lucide-react";
+import { Archive, ArrowLeft, CalendarDays, CalendarRange, CalendarPlus, CheckSquare, FolderInput, PanelRight, PanelBottom, PanelTop, Filter, Inbox, Mail, MailOpen, MailPlus, MoreVertical, Paperclip, RefreshCw, Reply, Search, Star, Tag, Trash2, AlertOctagon, Forward, Eraser, ShieldCheck, X } from "lucide-react";
 import { useLocation } from "wouter";
 import { useMail, type ListState } from "@/store/mail";
 import { dateTimeKey, useSettings } from "@/store/settings";
 import type { Email, Id } from "@/jmap/types";
 import { formatListDate } from "@/lib/format";
+import { groupByArchivePath, archivePath, type ArchiveGranularity } from "@/lib/archiveDate";
 import { canEmpty, confirmAndEmpty, emptyLabel } from "@/lib/emptyFolder";
 import { displayName, shortName } from "@/lib/address";
 import { Avatar, Empty, useIsMobile, useIsTouch } from "@/ui/misc";
@@ -224,6 +225,22 @@ export function MessageList({ title, list, openThreadId, focusId, setFocusId, on
   );
 
   const ctxTargets = useMemo(() => (ctxRow ? (selected[ctxRow] ? Object.keys(selected) : [ctxRow]) : []), [ctxRow, selected]);
+
+  /*
+   * Name the destination where there is only one, so the menu says where the
+   * mail is actually going rather than describing the rule. A selection that
+   * spans months has no single answer, and claiming one would be worse than
+   * naming the rule -- so that case falls back to it.
+   */
+  const archiveDateLabel = useCallback(
+    (granularity: ArchiveGranularity) => {
+      const groups = groupByArchivePath(ctxTargets.map((id) => ({ id, receivedAt: emails[id]?.receivedAt })), granularity);
+      const only = groups.length === 1 ? groups[0]! : null;
+      if (only?.segments.length) return t("Archive to {folder}", { folder: archivePath(only.segments) });
+      return granularity === "year" ? t("Archive by year") : t("Archive by month");
+    },
+    [ctxTargets, emails],
+  );
   const allSelected = ids.length > 0 && ids.every((id) => selected[id]);
   const someUnread = ctxTargets.some((id) => !emails[id]?.keywords.$seen);
   const someUnstarred = ctxTargets.some((id) => !emails[id]?.keywords.$flagged);
@@ -478,6 +495,8 @@ export function MessageList({ title, list, openThreadId, focusId, setFocusId, on
         <MenuItem icon={<MailPlus size={16} />} label={t("Compose as new")} onClick={() => { const e = ctxRow ? emails[ctxRow] : undefined; if (e) void useCompose.getState().composeAsNew(e); }} />
         <MenuSep />
         <MenuItem icon={<Archive size={16} />} label={t("Archive")} kbd="e" onClick={() => void actions.archive(ctxTargets)} />
+        <MenuItem icon={<CalendarRange size={16} />} label={archiveDateLabel("year")} onClick={() => void useMail.getState().archiveByDate(ctxTargets, "year")} />
+        <MenuItem icon={<CalendarDays size={16} />} label={archiveDateLabel("month")} onClick={() => void useMail.getState().archiveByDate(ctxTargets, "month")} />
         <MenuItem icon={<Trash2 size={16} />} label={t("Delete")} kbd="#" onClick={() => void actions.trash(ctxTargets)} />
         <MenuItem icon={<AlertOctagon size={16} />} label={mailbox?.role === "junk" ? "Not spam" : "Report spam"} kbd="!" onClick={() => void actions.spam(ctxTargets)} />
         <MenuSep />
diff --git a/web/src/views/settings/TemplatesSettings.tsx b/web/src/views/settings/TemplatesSettings.tsx
index 23bda73..5339125 100644
--- a/web/src/views/settings/TemplatesSettings.tsx
+++ b/web/src/views/settings/TemplatesSettings.tsx
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { Dialog } from "@/ui/dialog";
 import { RichEditor } from "../compose/RichEditor";
 import { htmlToText } from "@/lib/text";
 import { t as translate } from "@/lib/i18n";
+import { PLACEHOLDER_NAMES } from "@/lib/templatePlaceholders";
 
 export function TemplatesSettings() {
   const templates = useSettings((s) => s.settings.templates);
@@ -37,8 +38,48 @@ export function TemplatesSettings() {
               <RichEditor html={editing.html} onChange={(html) => setEditing({ ...editing, html })} showToolbar placeholder={translate("Template text…")} />
             </div>
           </div>
+          <PlaceholderReference />
         </Dialog>
       )}
     </div>
   );
 }
+
+/**
+ * What each placeholder answers, shown under the body so the names are
+ * discoverable without documentation. Rendered from `PLACEHOLDER_NAMES` rather
+ * than from this map, so a name added to the lib and forgotten here appears
+ * with no description instead of quietly not appearing at all.
+ */
+function placeholderHint(name: string): string {
+  switch (name) {
+    case "recipientName": return translate("Who the message is addressed to");
+    case "recipientFirstName": return translate("Their first name alone");
+    case "recipientEmail": return translate("Their address");
+    case "myName": return translate("The name on the identity you are sending as");
+    case "myEmail": return translate("That identity's address");
+    case "subject": return translate("The subject already on the message");
+    case "date": return translate("Today, in your date format");
+    case "time": return translate("Now, on your clock");
+    default: return "";
+  }
+}
+
+function PlaceholderReference() {
+  return (
+    <div className="field">
+      <label>{translate("Placeholders")}</label>
+      <div className="placeholder-list">
+        {PLACEHOLDER_NAMES.map((name) => (
+          <div key={name} className="placeholder-row">
+            <code>{`{{${name}}}`}</code>
+            <span className="hint">{placeholderHint(name)}</span>
+          </div>
+        ))}
+      </div>
+      <p className="hint">
+        {translate("Filled in when the template is inserted, so you can edit the result before sending. One that cannot be answered yet — a recipient's name on a message you have not addressed — is left in the body as written, rather than becoming a blank.")}
+      </p>
+    </div>
+  );
+}