Text Expanders Shrink Your Typing
A cool little class of tools, text expanders allow you to quickly (and repeatedly) turn a few short keystrokes into a whole bunch of keystrokes, thereby saving you time and effort. Growing up, I used to watch shows like Bewitched and I Dream of Jeanie. I thought it would be cool to be able to make one little gesture and get a lot of work done through it. Usually this involved me having to clean my room so that I could watch those TV shows. While text expander programs aren't magic, they will save you so much time that you might begin to think they are. Basically, all of the text expanders below allow you to assign a certain set of keystrokes (usually a pretty short set) to a block of text so that when you type those keystrokes, they get erased and are replaced by the longer block of text. I use these to create email templates for emails that I send all the time, answers to questions that I'm frequently asked, and templates for notes that I type into Evernote. How I ...