How To Give Better Presentations With TextExpander

The scene: you’re nervous, standing at the front of the room, dozens, maybe hundreds of eyes on you. Some may even be deciding your fate at the company. You’re giving a demo and it’s going smoothly so far. You get to the typing portion and Bam! your nervous fingers can’t type a single thing correctly.… Read More »

Previous Week Number Using TextExpander

A user wrote in asking if TextExpander’s date math could be used to determine the previous week number. He clarified that he wanted to get the week number of last week, not necessarily 7 days ago. It’s easy to subtract seven days using date math, but this isn’t a common request, so it’s not part… Read More »

Smile at WWDC Week, V.2016

Another WWDC just wrapped up last week. This is the 12th in San Francisco. WWDC is popular enough that tickets are given out via lottery. This can make it tough to get tickets, which is where AltConf comes in. As in some previous years, those of us who did not get WWDC tickets attended AltConf,… Read More »

Traveling Up the Snippet Collection Path

Whether you are a veteran TextExpander user and are not sure what to make into a snippet next, or a TextExpander newbie unsure what to make into a snippet, these tips are for you. Review your communication One great use of TextExpander is in communication. For many people, a work day consists of communicating, frequently… Read More »

Access Tons of Snippets Easily Using Inline Search

Whether you have just started growing your snippet library, or you have amassed an enormous library of thousands of snippets, gain quick access to all of them using TextExpander’s “Inline Search” hotkey. There’s no need to memorize abbreviations or print out snippet groups and pin them to the wall. Just type a key word from… Read More »