Dr. Drang posted this week about the value of throwaway macros and snippets. He’s a fan. So am I. I’ve referred to this before on the Mac Power Users but never posted on it here. Whenever I find myself doing anything remotely repetitive, my nerd-senses kick…

I’ve started writing up little mini-reviews for myself when I finish watching a movie or reading a book (or comic). I am currently saving these to a text file in nvALT but I also like the idea of saving them to Day One. I…

At Macworld I sat on a panel with Jeff Taekman, my spirit brother from the medical profession. Jeff sits in on a lot of meetings and talked about how he uses TextExpander snippets and Drafts to speed up note taking. He even wrote it up…

Organizing conference calls used to be a lot of trouble. It required a pay service, multiple telephone numbers and access codes (that were always changing), and the simple act of getting word out to everyone about the details always took more time than it…

Last week Smile released version 2.0 of TextExpander touch, which I really dig. Yesterday Smile gave me five free download codes to give away for the new app. I put the word out on Twitter to send in favorite snippets for codes and got…

The new version of TextExpander touch is now available for download and it’s fabulous. The big new features are rich text and fill in snippet support. Although this is a version 2.0, it is free for people who already purchased the prior version. The…

Here is another group of my TextExpander snippets. My date snippets fall in a few categories: Shortcuts Why type August when “xm8” is faster? Date Math I don’t remember when TextExpander added this feature but I really like the relative date function. If I…

I’ve updated the foreign thanks TextExpander snippets to Version 1.2. Now I’ve got even more languages, including important additions like binary and Klingon. buy’ ngop

Thanks everyone for the tweeks and additions to the foreign thanks snippet set. I’ve updated it in the original post and TE Snippet page. I’ve also received some nice snippet lists from readers for future posting. If you’ve got something you’d like to share,…