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Improving Your Productivity: Quick Tips for Text Expander
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Improving Your Productivity: Quick Tips for Text Expander

on Jul 7th 2011 with 6 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Text Expander
  • Estimated Time: 10 minutes
  • Difficulty: Beginner

In this exclusive web series, Adi Purdila is going to walk you through how to use a handful of web design applications to improve your productivity. Work fast, smarter, and more efficiently! Today’s session: Quick Tips for Text Expander!

Quick Tips for Text Expander (Exclusive Video)

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About this Series

Adi is going to be recording a handful of these little quick-tip videos for various web design programs. The purpose? To share some tips and trick for working faster in the programs that you use every single day! If you have any particular programs or technologies that you’d like him to share his tips on, let him know in the comments section below!

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  • http://imageworksllc.com Joshua Briley

    Thanks for posting. It’d be great to have links to these software bundles in the future.

  • Henno

    You started your series with Coda, so why don’t you use the clips palette build into Coda? You can do the same thing there.

    • David C

      @Henno,

      You’re right that this one feels out of place here, but it is a productivity tool.

      With TE, you could have snippets for many different programs. You could use it to expand specialized dates into iCal or a spreadsheet (‘ntues’ changes to next Tuesday; Jul. 12, 2011) or email form letters for those client/boss questions that come up again and again and again (with specialize ‘fill-ins’ for variable info).

      Adi didn’t even touch on some of the cool built-in functionality. In his demo comment snippet, he could have added a cursor snippet that would reposition his cursor to add his comment. There are also fill-ins, shell/applescript snippets, and embedded snippets (snippets inside snippets).

      In truth, I’m with you here. I do use my editor’s features to code productively. But I do use TextExpander a lot for the daily routines outside of coding.

      • Henno

        You are right, it makes sense to use it all over your working environment, not just for coda.
        I have not looked for TEs full feature list, so i did not know that you can use it for tasks like that.

        I only wanted to point out, that you can do everything that was shown in the video with codas built in functions.

        Thank you for your reply.

        Henno

  • http://www.phraseexpress.com/text-expander-windows.htm Joshua

    Hi,

    nice tutorial. I knew most of the tips but it is good to know that I haven’t made anything wrong.

    Just a hint: Occasionally, I also use a Windows PC and there a few Windows programs that can read the text snippets file of Mac TextExpander: Brevy and PhraseExpress.

    I prefer PhraseExpress as it has more features and was more snappier on my PC:
    http://www.phraseexpress.com/text-expander-windows.htm

    Josh

  • http://blog.gpunktschmitz.de Guenther Schmitz

    when i was using windows texter came in handy .. it’s free and sadly windows only …
    http://lifehacker.com/238306/lifehacker-code-texter-windows

    does anybody know a software like this for linux?!