TextExpander - advanced text shortcuts for your Mac
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
If you do not so long ago read a post about how to reduce the response time of docking, and took advantage of my advice, then you understand that the time - is not only money, but also comfort. Save yourself a few nerve cells and to optimize routine processes, not bothered with a long application configuration, will help the hero of our today's review - TextExpander. In general, TextExpander - a tool that allows you to make cuts to the text. Yes, it is possible, and the standard settings OS X Mavericks (which I also I wrote previously), but compared with TextExpander it is not so flexible.
I'll tell you about one of the scenarios.
Many of us at work are faced with the fact that the same information should be inserted in the text and tables several times. For example, you have three documents, each of which has five different fields to fill in the same information: the first - the address of your company, the second - her phone, and the third - email, fourth - your name and standard "with respect and best wishes ...", and the fifth - one of the numbers of bank account.
If the first four fields may be the same in all three of your documents, the fifth will be different depending on the details that you want to specify. Let's complicate the task and assume that all the fields, except the first, are distinguished: the firm you have one, and the phone can be more, depending on the branch, email - absolutely can be at your and your assistant or deputy, last name, you may need to specify not his, and responsible for the project, requests depending on the situation can be dramatically differ.
Now imagine that you day after day in a pile of papers write the same template data. Hand to do it - not rewarding work. It is necessary to optimize the process - the idea to which everyone comes with time. But under the "optimization" is often understood banal copying of all standard data in a text file, from which they then, depending on the document / situation, are copied into the base material. Yes, it reduces the time of filling the fields, but whether or not making the process more convenient?
In TextExpander you can create any cuts and tie them different text or condition. Instead, I've found the copy of the desired name, you can create shortcuts: type "FIO1" and the text is replaced by the given name - Ivanov II Write "FIO2" - appears Petrov PP Similarly, we can proceed with the phones, postal addresses and others.
Now, to not engage in banal copy, fill in the document can be much faster:
"Horns and hooves"
Tel1
FIO1
mylo2
sps3
After writing a few set of abbreviations, the output we get something like:
"Horns and hooves"
8-800-1234567
Ivanov II
[email protected]
Thank you for contacting!
Your application will be reviewed within 15 minutes. Passkey come to Your mailbox.
Regards, support group.
17 characters against the 201 - well cut, is not it?
Of course, this is not all that is capable of application. You can set the time and date in any convenient format, insert images, to emulate pressing the keypad buttons, the mouse cursor actions and even drop-down lists! In the latter case, an additional window will be displayed. In addition, you can perform various scenarios AppleScript - and it expands the already rich opportunities of the program.
As you can see, TextExpander functionality lacking, so those to whom little is commonly abbreviated to Mavericks, this app do a good job.
Download TextExpander on the official website of the developer. To view the program, there is a demo version of the product.