203: TextExpander

David and Katie dive deep on one of their favorite productivity tools, TextExpander.

Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for assistance with the shownotes this week!

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Links for this episode:

• Keystroke logging - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Keystroke logging, often referred to as keylogging or keyboard capturing, is the action of recording (or logging) the keys struck on a keyboard, typically in a covert manner so that the person using the keyboard is unaware that their actions are being monitored.
  
• TextExpander: Mac Typing Shortcut Utility Saves You Time TextExpander: Mac Typing Shortcut Utility Saves You Time
  Type more with less effort! TextExpander saves your fingers and your keyboard, expanding custom keyboard shortcuts into frequently-used text and pictures...
  
• TextExpander touch: iOS Typing Shortcuts for iPhone and iPad
  Type more with less effort on your iPhone or iPad! Expand custom keyboard shortcuts into frequently-used text snippets. Grab your favorite snippets from your Mac!
  
• TextExpander Snippets — MacSparky
  Do you use TextExpander? So do I. Here are some useful snippets.
  
• TextExpander: Mac Typing Shortcut Utility Saves You Time
  Video Tutorials
  
• Twitter / MacSparky: We are recording a show on ...
  

  We are recording a show on TextExpander in an hour. What are some of your favorite snippets?

  — David Sparks (@MacSparky) July 7, 2014
  

• Tribble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Tribbles are fictional animals in the Star Trek universe who first appeared in the episode titled "The Trouble with Tribbles".
  
• List of Star Trek animals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  The targ (in Klingon language: targh) is a boar-like beast with sharp tusks. It is native to the Klingon homeworld Qo'noS.
  
• Shut Up Wesley! - YouTube
  
• A Quick Guide to Common Miscapitalizations of Tech Names — Shawn Blanc
  
• Sherlock (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Predefined Snippet Groups
  Predefined Snippet Groups
  
• TextExpander Tools - BrettTerpstra.com
  DRINK!
  
• Mac Power Users 169: Workflows with Dr. Jeffery Taekman | Mac Power Users
  David and Katie talk to Dr. Jeffery Taekman, a physician, researcher and educator at Duke.
  
• MPU 090: Meetings (and Technology) | Mac Power Users
  David and Katie talk about why meetings suck and how to make them suck less with a lot of planning and a little techcnology.
  
• Drafts - Agile Tortoise
  
• Search results for 'TextExpander' - All this
  
• Inside OmniFocus
  
• Brett Terpstra - iPhone and iPad text/code editors and writing tools compared
  DRINK!
  
• 475 WHILL, Smile Software and iOS 8 « Nosillacast
  Greg Scown, founder (along with Philip Goward) of Smile Software talks to us about what the new changes to iOS might bring to enhanced capabilities of applications like TextExpander.
  
• Typinator - the fastest text expander in town
  
• TypeIt4Me - the original text expander app for Mac.
  
• aText - Typing accelerator - Text macro utility for Mac.