Utilities should be prefixed so they don't inadvertantly expand.Development related ones should be broken into tool groups and then scoped to expand only to that group. If you were as blown away reading that stat as I was writing it, well, let's begin.Īfter using this for several years, I found a few sources of truth:
110 words–per–minute, which many typing race car games have confirmed to be accurate). In that time, I have expanded upwards of forty-eight thousand snippets and saved ~ 31 hours (Based on typing approx. I installed TextExpander on day-one, so it is safe to assume that I have used it, on this machine, for a year as well. I'm writing this blog post on my personal Mac Book Air, which I have owned for about a year. You can create simple text to text snippets, or more complex ones with dropdown options, default text, dynamic dates and times, and more.īefore we dive in, there's a really simple way to figure out if TextExpander is for you. In essence, you can complete any repetitive typing-based tasks you have to do with a carefully crafted snippet. TextExpander's premise is simple: type a shortcut and it expands to a longer phrase. All of these apps are crucial to my day-to-day work, but only one can be credited with saving me gratuitous amounts of time.
DAYONE TEXTEXPANDER INSTALL
When I buy a new machine, the very first things I install are: Alfred, Dropbox (%r) and TextExpander.
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