Take Control of TextExpander

Introduction

 

In my introduction to the first version of this book, I described how, as someone who preferred to drive a Mac with as few add-on software utilities as possible, I nonetheless became a TextExpander convert and enthusiast.

Now, a year later, I remain just as converted and enthusiastic. In that year, according to TextExpander’s Statistics feature (which I don’t cover in this book because it’s nothing you need to take control of beyond clicking Statistics in the TextExpander window’s toolbar), TextExpander has saved me 129,345 characters in typing and has expanded 7,948 snippets. At 80 words-per-minute, those saved characters comes to 5.39 hours of my time saved. That’s a lot of snippets, a fair chunk of time, and, at my normal hourly ...