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Text expansion is the embodiment of everything that’s great about modern computers. It helps you get stuff done faster, easier, better than it was possible before. Text expansion works like this – you type a keyword – a snippet of text and it gets expanded automatically to a much bigger block of text.

PhraseExpress (Freemium) PhraseExpress is yet another powerful and advanced application for.

Mac: We love text expansion because it can save you hours of typing every day. There is a wide variety of apps available for Mac, but they tend to be quite expensive for minimum features.
PhraseExpress is available for Windows and the TextExpander alternative saves typing on your Mac, too. The Text Expander App for iPhone and iPad provides the productivity benefits on tablet or smartphone devices. Features advertised on our website refer to the Windows version, unless specified otherwise.

Yes, you need to pre-configure these things but in the end you emerge victorious and smarter. And because these are computers after all, you can do a bit of programming magic. Nothing fancy – just basic stuff. A shortcut to type in the today’s date or the current time. Things like that.

It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that text expansion is a must for any Mac user who spends hours at end with their fingers on the keyboard. But the best text expander app according to the Mac community (and the podcast sponsor reads I hear every other day), is TextExpander. Good for them, but this app costs $45. If you are willing to spend that much, go ahead, you will not be disappointed (I’ve tried the demo version).

But if you can’t, and you’re looking for something basic anyway, there’s aText for you. It does a lot of what TextExpander does, reliably, at just $4.99. Now that you’ve hurriedly bought the app, let’s see how to use the thing.

Using aText

aText will be running in the background. Always. You’ll see the app’s icon in the menu bar. Click it and choose Open aText to bring up the app’s homescreen. This is where you’ll configure your snippets.

You’ll be happy to know that aText has already taken the time to create many boilerplate snippets for you. Things like Thank You Very Much, On My Way! and more. If you’re a web developer, you’ll find an entire folder dedicated to HTML shorthand. Plus, the macros for typing in the date and time are also available here.

Suggestions for creating snippets: If it’s your first time using text expansion snippets, you might be scratching your head a bit. But don’t worry, I’ve already written about the 6 kinds of text expansion snippets everyone should use. It’s a great place to start – your address, email signature and things like that. Most importantly, create a snippet whenever you find that you’re typing in the same thing more than twice in a relatively small time frame.

Creating a Snippet

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On the application’s homescreen, you’ll see a + button with the New label. Click it and on the right side you’ll be greeted with two empty Abbreviation and Content fields. Type in the keyword in the top field and the content you want it to expand to in the bottom field. And you’re done. No need to save or anything.

Wasn’t that easy?

But opening the app every time, typing in stuff manually doesn’t really sound like we’re saving as much time as we could. It’s possible to speed up the process by creating a snippet from selection or the clipboard. So when you come across a paragraph or some text you want to quickly type in again, just select/copy it, click the aText menu bar button, select Shortcuts -> Make snippet from selection/Make snippet from clipboard.

Now, aText’s New screen will show up, with the content right there. Type in the Abbreviation and you’re done.

aText Preferences Worth Noting

By default, aText doesn’t back up your snippets. But you can enable it by going to Preferences -> Sync. You can either choose iCloud or any folder. I personally went with a Dropbox folder which means it’s accessible from all of my devices.

From the Hotkeys section you can create keyboard shortcuts for quickly creating a snippet from clipboard/selection and most importantly to disable/enable aText on the fly.

Currently, there’s no option to disable aText in a particular app. Create a keyboard shortcut or just click the aText menu bar icon and click Enabled.

Using Macros and Other Pro Features

When you’re creating a new snippet, you’ll see a down-arrow beside the Content button. This is for changing the type of the snippet. By default, it’s plain text – because you’re just expanding text. But it’s possible to run AppleScripts and ShellScripts this way as well.

Perhaps the most important option from the menu is Formatted text. If you played around with the app for a while, you would have noticed that the app doesn’t really take into consideration text formatting and arrangement. Switch to this option and it will.

Also, below the Content area you’ll see options for Insert and Format. aText gives you access to some very basic macros like the date, time, clipboard, image, key bindings and cursor input. So if you want to create your own macro using one of these, this is the place to do it.

From the Format option, you’ll be able to format the text – align it, change the font size and more.

What Did You Automate?

Which time-saving snippet did you create? Share with us in the comments below.

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Did You Know

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Recall them by typing a keyboard shortcut. In any application

Type (or import) your templates in PhraseExpander (you can also import your Word autotexts and autocorrects automatically)
Associate an abbreviation to each template (this can be done automatically)
Type the abbreviation in any program to insert the associated template

Relevant suggestions are displayed as you type in any application

Differently from other text expanders, PhraseExpander displays suggestions as you type, in the Suggestions window.

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Type an abbreviation and PhraseExpander will display all the templates that match the text you typed.

You can trigger the desired template by pressing the SHIFT key.

There’s no need to remember abbreviations or to use prefixes as they will not conflict with your normal typing.

Don’t remember the abbreviation?

No problem.

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By pressing the ALT + SPACE shortcut, the Quick Find pops up and you can immediately search your entire library.

And insert the appropriate information in any document. Instantly.

Dealing with customers via e-mail? Need easy access to boilerplate paragraphs?
Create standard customer service responses. Set up a list of often used e-mail phrases, addresses, and other boilerplates, and insert them by typing a short abbreviation.
Use different email signatures?
Easily insert a customized signature with a few keystrokes.
Filling out forms?
Make it easy on yourself by adding your address, email, phone, and fax numbers to your library!
Need to insert the current date or time?
PhraseExpander comes with date and time snippets that you can format the way you want!
Lost among code fragments and commands to remember?
Define abbreviations for frequently used Unix commands, create templates for code fragments and DB queries.
Looking for addresses, emails and phone numbers?
Insert instantly and accurately phone numbers, emails, and addresses into documents by just typing a pre-defined 'nickname' or 'alias' (for example, type 'mark' and PhraseExpander will insert '[email protected]' into whatever document you're typing in).
RSI syndrome prevention
PhraseExpander automates your tasks, thus reducing the amount of typing you have to do, and consequently the risk of suffering from repetitive strain injury.

How many keystrokes can you save by using text expansion? Here are a few examples, just to give you an idea.

Template	Abbreviation
Yours sincerely, Your name 24 KEYSTROKES	ys 2 KEYSTROKES-92%
I look forward to hearing from you soon 40 KEYSTROKES	look 4 KEYSTROKES-90%
You can expect a reply within 24 hours. 45 KEYSTROKES	repl24 6 KEYSTROKES-87%
You can expect a reply within 48 hours. 45 KEYSTROKES	repl48 6 KEYSTROKES-87%
If I can be of further help, please write me. 45 KEYSTROKES	furth 5 KEYSTROKES-89%
[email protected] 23 KEYSTROKES	mail 4 KEYSTROKES-83%
https://www.yourdomain.com 25 KEYSTROKES	web 3 KEYSTROKES-83%
Your order has been shipped today. You should receive it in the next 3 business days. 85 KEYSTROKES	ship 4 KEYSTROKES-95%

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The Usage Statistics shows you how you are using the software by reporting executed templates, typed keystrokes and saved time.

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