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Saving time with TextExpander

Saving time with TextExpander

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Saving time with TextExpander

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- [Zack] If you can't already tell, I love to geek out about productivity. So far we've covered a lot of cool tips, some cool apps, as well as larger systems that you can put in place to become a productivity machine. Now, I'm going to demonstrate a must-have app that I can't live without that's called TextExpander. In my opinion this app is a jaw-dropper. TextExpander is similar to apps that you can use to program multiple commands or macros. But, imagine being able to apply that to any phrase or keystroke that you can come up with. And the length of what you type is infinite. Let's dive right in. So you'll see with TextExpander, it's a very simple interface and what I've also done is I've opened a very simple TextEdit document so I can demonstrate how the process works. Unlike keyboard macros where it's just going to be a specific string of keys that might be hot keys or commands, with TextExpander the options for…

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