TextExpander helps you save time while typing and tracks how much of that precious time you save. Click on the Statistics button in the TextExpander toolbar to see how much time you’re saving:
You can set your typing speed to make the hours saved more accurate. If you’re a slow typist, like me, you’ll definitely want to do that, as it increases your time saved.
Be a bit competitive. Click the Tweet My Stats button, and compare how you’re doing with your followers on Twitter.
If you’re curious which snippets you use most often, choose View -> Sort by Most Used, and that will sort your groups so that the most recently used snippets are at the top. If the order seems backward, choose that menu item again, and it will reverse the sort order. Try Sort by Most Recently Used to see which snippets you’ve used lately.
The sort orders work within groups, but maybe you’d like to know your most used snippet from all of your snippet groups. For that, we’ll turn to AppleScript. Copy and paste this into Script Editor (an app found in Applications > Utilities), and click Run:
tell application “TextExpander”
set topSnippet to null
set topSnippetCount to 0
repeat with aGroup in groups
tell aGroup
repeat with aSnippet in snippets
if (use count of aSnippet) > topSnippetCount then
set topSnippetCount to (use count of aSnippet)
set topSnippet to aSnippet
end if
end repeat
end tell
end repeat
display dialog “Your top abbreviation is: ” & (abbreviation of topSnippet) & “, which you’ve expanded ” & (use count of topSnippet) & ” times to: ” & (plain text expansion of topSnippet) buttons {“OK”} default button “OK”
end tell
I hope you’re amused with my result:
Show us your top snippet on Twitter by ending your tweet with: @TextExpander #SnippetStats
