I’m starting a new series where I’m going to feature some of my favorite TextExpander snippets. If you don’t know about TextExpander, shame on you. It is a fantastic application that lets you quickly type long (and short) snippets of text with just a…
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TextExpander 4.04
The newest version of TextExpander for Mac is out with some nice improvements: Supports Cut, Copy and Paste for items in the snippet list Adds popover to resolve snippet abbreviation conflicts Duplicate snippets are drawn with blue abbreviation (vs. orange for conflicts) Adds “expand…
Continue reading →iOS OmniFocus ♥ TextExpander touch
Today’s iOS OmniFocus update is a doozy. The headline feature is the addition of iOS TextExpander support. As I’ve explained before, I aggressively use TextExpander snippets when creating tasks in OmniFocus. I even made a screencast about it. Now they work on the iPhone…
Continue reading →TextExpander Expense Snippet
I spent most of yesterday in court. As I fired off my TextExpander expense reporting snippet, it occurred to me, “people may like this.” This snippet creates a fill-in form with all the relevant boxes. I can use it in any text application, I…
Continue reading →Text Expander Snippet Repository? Yes Please.
Awhile back, I wrote about how nice it would be if we put together a web site to share TextExpander Snippets. Reader Alexander took the idea and ran with it. Opening its doors yesterday te-snippets.com is going to become the promised land for TextExpander…
Continue reading →TextExpander Markdown Snippets and Beyond
Brett is getting it together. His markdown snippets are more elegant than mine, which feel like the coding equivalent of Soviet-era public housing. Either way, I’m going to start pestering Brett to help out with this project and if you are a TextExpander/Markdown junkie,…
Continue reading →Supercharge TextExpander
Brett Terpstra has coded some remarkable TextExpander snippets including: the ability to auto hyphenate the clipboard encode e-mail addresses paste markdown referenced auto generate markdown references from your clipboard create lorum ipsum text using text from word lists from Dune, Foundation, Ringworld, Harry Potter,…
Continue reading →TextExpander 3 Released
Today SmileOnMyMac released TextExpander 3. I’ve been using the beta for a few weeks and am sold. The big difference with the new version is user functionality. There is a new quick entry window that makes creating new snippets a breeze. One of my…
Continue reading →TextExpander Learns New Tricks
Today TextExpander released a particularly tasty update. For Gmail jockeys, there is now support for rich text and image expansion in web-based tools. I’ve already shown how to do this in Apple Mail. My favorite new feature allows you designate a portion of your…
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