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By: Bakari

Bakari — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:32:45 +0000

Great video, esp. the advance part. You saved me some more time by explaining the more advance way of using the href snippet, Now I don’t have to cut and paste as much as I was.

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By: Michael Mistretta

Michael Mistretta — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:41:51 +0000

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By: Rajarshi Nigam

Rajarshi Nigam — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:28:41 +0000

Track what you’re typing, and have it notice that you’re typing the same things a LOT. The bad part of this is that you have to realize that you can use this more than you actually would. It’d be great to put it into a “training mode” where it will see that “hey, you’re typing ‘first post’ a lot. it sure would be a lot better if you just had to type ‘fp’, wouldn’t it?”

this shouldn’t be an annoying popup or something but something that shows in the preference pane… “what you’ve been typing a lot of recently”… etc.

integrating with 1passwd (or your own passwd manager) so that your password can be typed out would be cool too

By: Shishir

Shishir — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:57:30 +0000

The main feature I would like to see in TextExpander is:

* Functions: I should be able to say bl(x) or bl_x and define it to expand to x.blogspot.com. This would be really handy for me while browsing. Another way of implementing this would be prefix matching. Say if i append two ww before anything, expand to www.*.com. So wwgmail expands to http://www.gmail.com.

* Also it might be good to have some set of expansions that can be restricted to certain apps only. Eg the above url expansions may make sense in a web browser only.

* Another suggestion I have is that it might make sense to have multiple translations for the same phrase and cycle through them using a hotkey. This would really reduce the number of phrases to remember. Eg. Suppose the hotkey was a tab. If I map all my email addresses to “em”, writing em expands to my first email and pressing tab keeps going on to the next one till I have the one I need.

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Typing it All Out is So Old School | geek stew — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:24:47 +0000

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By: Alan Bradford

Alan Bradford — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:05:49 +0000

This application gets four gold stars on its forehead. I’m gonna go blog about it right now. But first…Here are three of my most often used phrases:

1. Sorry Fabio, but I CAN believe it’s not butter.
2. No I will not make out with you.
3. Wow Mr. Car Salesman, that trunk is big enough for at least 7 bodies.

By: David

David — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:37:06 +0000

1. ‘That’s creepy.’ > If something is indeed creepy or otherwise strange.

2. ‘I’m hungry.’ > Self explanatory.

3. ‘Ouch.’ > Used a. to express pain. b. when something bad happens to someone.

By: Joseph Pecoraro

Joseph Pecoraro — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:57:11 +0000

1) (Maybe this works in triggered snippets but I use the default because I want it to happen as soon as I type) Maybe there should be an option to always expand a snippet of text in typed in any context. For instance right now if I were the type “ddate” it would not expand because of the quotes. I common example for me is I will open QuickSilver, and to enter text mode I have to hit “.”, and to paste my contents if Cmd-V don’t work (because of a bug) then I will use my “ppaste” snippet. That would not work because I really pushed “.ppaste” (so I had to make a new snippet to handle that situation).

2) Finally, a cancel hotkey. What if I really do want to type “nname” however rare. A simple ctrl+alt+cmd+z for undo snippet would work just fine for me.

By: acrossthepod

acrossthepod — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:37:11 +0000

My top 3 phrases:

1.Email Signature: “Armageddons on inbound port’s so i’m not networking the fridge!”

2.”I wish people would stop asking the question, why is my mac not working?”

3.”i’ve been thinking, no, seriously!”

By: broz

broz — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:55:14 +0000

Fun product. I would like to see better support for indenting source code. I plan to use TextExpander for Python coding (tho indentation is important in most any kind of coding). If I want to expand a method definition, and the cursor is already indented 4 characters, I want the new expanded text to be appropriately 4 characters in, and subsequent lines indented properly from that point. If I have to go back and correct the indentation, that will slow me down.

By: Colby G.

Colby G. — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:32:40 +0000

Voice would definitely be cool. Saying the snippet and having the expanded version appear would save a lot of time.

By: Brendon Cromwell

Brendon Cromwell — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:39:54 +0000

I would love to see the ability to run apple scripts after a snippet has been expanded. E.g., send an email, submit a web form, or save a document.

By: Dink

Dink — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:32:36 +0000

- Free your Mind and your Ass will follow! -> fass
- Whoa! Hey! Are you contagious?! -> wont
- I want to believe! -> wieve

…and voice recognition would be wonderful.

By: brandon

brandon — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:50:47 +0000

I frequently use my favorite pick-up lines… I play the law of averages that one day someone will respond.

1. I can’t find my puppy, can you help me find him? I think he went into this cheap motel room.

2. If you’re going to regret this in the morning, we can sleep until afternoon.

3. Do you have a library card? Because I’d like to check you out.

By: kemper

kemper — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:10:59 +0000

1. Yes Dad, Macs can do email.
2. Throw away that P.O.S. mouse it came with.
3. You have to get out of Time Machine to print Dad!

Feature Suggestion: Ability to change the format of text after typing shortcut with an additional letter.

By: Yong Hwee

Yong Hwee — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:24:52 +0000

I use these 3 phrases the most:

gmaill – yonghweefoo@gmail.com
blogg – http://www.thesecondpress.com/blog/
aycu – http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/

By: Enrique

Enrique — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:31:09 +0000

My three most used phrases are:

supcal – Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
bb – Baja la basura
yastoy – Ya estoy llegando…

By: Bomar

Bomar — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:45:14 +0000

1) it puts the lotion in the basket or else it gets the hose.

2) again, I was unaware that jedi robes did not constitute “formal attire”.

3) pics or it didn’t happen

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:42:39 +0000

Voice input!

By: Gimp

Gimp — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:12:58 +0000

I can safely say this would be amazing for use in my coding, As I’m sure its easier to define things in this than textmate (and I prefer subethaedit anyways).

as for what I say most? “blarg”. I guess I could shorten that to “b”… bwahahaha.

By: san

san — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:14:42 +0000

My 3 most used everyday words are:

1: arghhhhhhhhh….!
2: pfffffffff….. !
3: tsssssssss…….. !

By: Taylor Olson

Taylor Olson — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:10:04 +0000

Great Review!

I use:

-Lol. (Laugh Out Loud.)
-Stfu. (Shut the f*** up.)
-Omg. (Oh My God.)

I would really like to see a mind reader thing where I can think something and it types it.

I would REALLY like to see continued sentances. Like there are things I like to say like “Yeah, I know.” Or “Yes, I agree.” I would like to see that available.

I also agree with NichM. Voice would be great, if the voice recognition was good. (Not like Vista’s) ;-P

By: Jeremy Sabugo

Jeremy Sabugo — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:26:36 +0000

Top 3.
ï£¿ OMG-O my god
ï£¿ WTF-What the f***
ï£¿ LOL-Laughing out loud

By: Cat

Cat — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:57:30 +0000

paperhat – You want fries with that?
dvorak – I get no spam.
vista – That never happens on a Mac.

By: Mike Mellor

Mike Mellor — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:40:09 +0000

I’d like to see a kind of auto-complete list in a growl bubble – so, as I start typing in a TextExpander keystroke, it will give a me a list of possible completions. This would be helpful for the keystrokes that I don’t use very often.

Three sayings?
1. Sorry I’m late.
2. Turn off the TV and do your homework.
3. I just need a few more minutes to install this app.

By: Ammon

Ammon — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:35:29 +0000

1. How appropriate. You fight like a cow.
2. I’m selling these fine leather jackets.
3. That’s the second biggest monkey head I’ve ever seen!