Our inaugural app-specific Stupid Simple Mac Tips blog post is on TextExpander.
You may use already use it daily.
More likely, you own a license but rarely use it.
And even more likely, you’ve heard about it, but haven’t taken the time to set it up and start using it.
Over the next 3 weeks, I’ll put out a short post not meant to teach you how to configure the entire app, or to become an advanced superuser, but to do two things:
- Either get you to start using it. (Who wouldn’t want to automate their typing?)
- To have you start using it daily. (or use daily…more often)
If you could check those two boxes, it would be a worthy goal.
What is it?
If you’re unfamiliar, it is a productivity app that uses keyboard shortcuts to automatically insert longer blocks of frequently used text called snippets.
How many characters are in your email address? Your phone number? Your office address?
How often do you type those yet still make a spelling error, then have to go back and correct it?
If you could type 3 characters and have it type the rest for you and do so perfectly every time, would you want that?
Duh.