The best thing to me would be if it were a preference pane with the option for a menu item. Especially when I’m teaching something like this my shortcuts an easy way to add them in the menu bar is crucial. But as time goes on, it’s pretty much just something to use in the background.

As far as work flow goes, it is simply stress relieving to be done writing and not see red squigglies under my freinds and all thier poeple.

i am working on different computers during the day, yet i have to work with all kinds of repeating text snippets. right now, i upload such texts to .mac manually, but i am some kind of sync-fetishist, i guess

the second one would have to be mail.app-integration, maybe even with an applescript. i would like to be able to create a rule that, when the conditions are met, replies with a certain text block. that´s also the reply to how i could use typinator to improve on my own workflow

One thing I’d love to see would be application-specific sets, so that I could use one shortcut to achieve one result in Mail, and another result in Excel. Both would relate to the same item, but refer to the different fonts, capitalization, spacing/punctuation, and other errata.

Another thing that might be very useful is a “learning mode” I could turn on, where Typinator would actively monitor keystrokes – as it does anyway — and detect where I hit the delete key, log it as a possible typing correction in need of a suggested shortcut.

And, yes, I’d love for it to leave the dock and jump to either the menubar or, better yet, reside in preferences.

I could use it in mail replies and in ichat,call numbers,

I would be great if Typinator potitioned on the menu bar

Like me with Entourage, using snippets I could save repetitive standard words, like Regards, Dear John, etc Even a whole letter (so I just need to change the minor details)

I checked out the Typinator trial a while ago and it fit right into my work flow which involves a lot of copywriting and oodles of email. Great tool. Here’s hoping for a license.

I need to write out certain web addresses often so I have these logged for quick access. (www’plus a 1-2 character abbreviation’ is replaced with a url complete with the ‘http://’ start which some things need to recognise it as a link)

I have the usual ‘Kind regards’ type thing which they suggested on their site – but on a lighter note, my chat comments have become more descriptive with things like ‘be right back’, ‘no problem’, ‘by the way’ and ‘lol’ being ‘laughing so much that my kidney’s are hurting’ taking a fraction of a second to activate. Amusement all around.

It’s options per abbreviation are great – making sure it’s matched to lowercase/uppercase or mixed text, to whole words or just after the the characters have been typed (which, if not available, would be annoying if a word happens to include those character combinations).

As to what I’d like to see in a future version, I suppose I’d like a bit of syncing action – so my abbreviations would be the same for both my macs without finding out that my emails are full of garbled letters where I’d expected certain words and phrases to have replaced them.

In terms of workflow, it is obvious that you would increase its efficacy and efficiency. If possible, it would be nice for it to “learn” as you go on though…after you use a word…say…100 times, it would know that it is legitimate, even if not in its memory, and then it could make suggestions later based on that.

I would like to have typinator to answer my technical support mails. I´m going to write the most typical answers to the FAQS and then one code for each. When i receive one mail I write the code answer1, answerb, etc, so i save a lot of time.

I’ve never used any such software, but as a student who takes lecture notes on a laptop, there are many words and/or expressions that come forth often when you listen to a professor (as a law student, things like “Common Law”, “Constitution”, “Double Tax Treaty” and so forth are repetitive and long to type, even if you type fast). While abbreviations are good if you are going to keep your notes to yourself, they won’t help other people.
So personally, the first use I would make of Typinator is exactly that: save time while typing my lecture notes that I make available to everyone in my class of 400.

Another use is Spotlight-related: to optimise your chances of finding just the right document (now that Spotlight has almost replaced the need for Quicksilver in my experience), you need to use tags (”app:”, “document:”, …) to force Spotlight to come up with exactly what you want. Enters Typinator, and you can write two letters and a space, and you have your 10-lettered search tag.

However, as a person who actually likes to type words in full, I think that it would really be for the occasional word or expression that is a bother to type that I would use it, not for the smaller words I use all the time.

As Arjun mentioned in the above post, using it for HTML, PHP, …, would really be useful, because of all the tags you end up using repetitively: “

Features I would like to see: A way of using the same abbreviations for multiple snippets. This way, I would have to remember less. I could map all my signatures to xxsig and just cycle through them while expanding. This would considerably lessen the burden to rember shortcuts.

Being able to password protect snippets would be great, so that we can use it to store passwords used often (although I mostly use 1password for that).

For being able to deal with the way I handle mail, I would also like the snippets to be able to take parameters like customer name and order number. This way it will be able to generate customized snippets for me.

I’d love to see the ability to insert images, move the cursor to a certain point in the expanded phrase and the ability to store passwords (I have some long passwords I keep typing a thousand times a day) – Leopard seems to have it’s quirks with this when I try it in textexpander (the field remains empty).

For number 2, I think this app can be a lot of help for bloggers, writers and developers, functionality for programming code, HTML formatting for bloggers. Personally, I think the greates use for it is to fill out forms (name, address, password, website, email).

Cheers