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It might be needed to extend the token syntax to have variables (eg the node or taxonomy id you want to fetch).

<h2>{$node.42.title}</h2>
<div>$node.42.teaser}</div>

What I often do is generate the content in the CMS side, put it in a textarea and the users do a copy/paste between that and civimail. Might be easier to automate further and add a one click button that would (ajax) create the mailing and set its content. The api for civimail has become good enough to be used like that I think

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Yeah Lobo & I have discussed extending the token syntax e.g {node.teaser id=30} - probably with multiple params.

Something that could be super handy is to be able to assign the id once only and re-use it in several places
{assign node_id=42}

{node.teaser} //implicitly id=32
{node.title}

That's a common issue users have: how to send a nicely formatted invitation for an event, without having to copy paste the date/title/link/... with this syntax would be easy(ier)

In this case I probably don't need that as they are using a drupal module to set a bunch of items to be in the latest list & I can pull from one location.

They seem to prefer to faff around in drupal & have it in the header in civi enough to justify a token

Good point