If you find yourself typing the same things over and over, TextExpander might be the tool for you.
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As an English teacher, I type the same thing on paper after paper. You might imagine my relief when I discovered TextExpander.
I won’t say it saves me time. I mean, it could. It takes a lot less time to type .dm’ on a student’s paper than to type out a paragraph about dangling modifiers. But I end up using the time I offering better, more meaningful feedback. It’s a nice trade-off.
The video shows two ways that I use TextExpander, but there are a lot more — different signatures in emails, time-date-location stamps in my journal, directions to my office, bits of code for Canvas or WordPress, and so on.
There are a lot of other clever ways to use it, too; my favorite is using TextExpander to strip formatting off things I copy-paste from PDFs, or Word, or the web.
Check it out, if it sounds interesting.