Now, when I know that a word I want to type has more than 6 characters, I routinely open quick search and simply enter few characters from that word and press enter. I will write an article on how you can do that soon.Īnd just like that, I have changed how I think about writing.
For me, I assign them to a hotkey and then call from Karabiner so opening up quick search becomes pressing s + o and making snippets from selected text is f + d for me where f is my Karabiner made modifier key. You can assign these hotkeys in the settings of this app. One for opening quick search and one for making a text expansion snippet from selected text. To make all this work however, you need two very close by to you hotkeys. And here is how that set looks for me:Īnd they can include more complex things like moving the mouse caret to any place I want, include clipboards and more. And these word expansions, I put in a set I called Words. For example the expansions I did for Fantastical app were put in the set Fantastical. In Typinator you can create Sets to give a theme to your text expansion. I also always add a space to each expansion since usually a word is followed by a space and then another word. Well one thing I started doing is I started indexing both all the various phrases I type and long words like this. That is I need 12 keystrokes to type them out every time I use them. Both of these words are 12 characters each. Expanding long phrases is pretty sweet and does save a lot of time. Since Typinator supports fuzzy searching, I can just include parts of words that are included somewhere in my expanded string and that string will surface to the top of my results. Here is how such a text expansion looks like in Typinator: I could create a text expansion that would expand Thank you. It is a text expansion application that lets you save snippets of text and assign an expansion string to expand that snippet of text. Typinator is a neat little utility that you can use to solve this.
Fortunately there is a solution to this little problem that you can use. And that above, sure sounds like a lot of repeating. There is a saying in programming world, Don’t repeat yourself. Same keystrokes written to the screen every time again and again. My email (or multiple emails in my case), my Twitter/GitHub/Linkedin pages, my phone number, my address. There is also personal stuff that I very often have to type. More often than not, I say the same things many times. This article is about my approach to making Write once, never write againstatement come true for me. However you can take this idea of automating your text input further.Īnd in process, save a lot of time. I wrote about Typinator briefly before where I talked about how I use it to quickly make expansions for natural text input of Fantastical calendar.
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