| TextExpander saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently-used text strings and images. Type a few letters and — pop — your text appears!
Use different email signatures?
• Easily insert a customized signature with a few keystrokes. You can even include a photo or logo!
Need easy access to boilerplate paragraphs?
• Add them to your snippet library and insert them into your emails and contracts by typing a short abbreviation!
Filling out forms?
• Make it easy on yourself by adding your address, email, phone and fax numbers to your snippet library!
Keep making the same typos?
• Add common typos as triggers. TextExpander automatically replaces them with the correct spelling!
Need to insert the current date or time?
• TextExpander comes with date and time snippets that you can format the way you want!
Try it! You’ll be amazed how easy it is to save hours of typing!
Check out all the latest TextExpander features!
• Date and time math (add or subtract years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds from current date/time)
• AppleScript URL shorteners that automatically insert URLs from TinyURL, bit.ly and tr.im
• Accented Words: easily insert commonly-used foreign words in English, like crêpe, débâcle, or jalapeño
• CSS and HTML snippet groups
• MobileMe syncing
“The single best productivity tool for the Mac, right after Quicksilver.”
– Leo Laporte, host of MacBreak.
“TextExpander is it. I’ve been using it for less one hour and I’m already weeping with happiness and wonder. And plunking down my credit card, to boot.”
– Colleen Wainwright, The Communicatrix
System Requirements:
TextExpander 2.0 requires Mac OS X 10.4 and above.
Mac OS X 10.3.9 users: Please download TextExpander 1.3.1.
Click to Developer’s Site for more info. |
November 19th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
I use this and love it. There’s another app that’s similar to this one, which I tried for awhile. But the other one kept deleting the definitions I set up. TE’s definitely more stable and I love it. Especially the way you can set up certain snippets for certain applications (I have some snippets I use for Script Editor only), categorize snippets in folders (for example, all my text editors convert pate to paté).
The user interface is laid out well, makes sense, and is easy to figure out. There’s an option to have it in the menu bar. And you can make it case sensitive by default, increasing the number of snippet names available to you. Really a great app.
You know, I just realized I don’t own this yet. Nice to have it available as a discount. The $29 price tag was a reason I hadn’t bought it yet. Nice to have it available at a discount.
November 19th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
I’m still using the freeware version – Textpander. But this discount is tempting me to buy the latest version. Thanks Maczot and smileonmymac.
November 20th, 2008 at 5:21 am
Was tempted to pick this up, but after reading the reviews @ macupdate, I think I’ll wait to pick up Typinator instead.
November 20th, 2008 at 6:40 am
The reviews still shows a 4 1/2 star rating. I have textpander and have experienced no problems. I would give it a try before you decide to go with another product, especially while it is at a good price. If it works for you then those others had other issues.
November 20th, 2008 at 9:09 am
I have both TextExapnder and Typinator thanks to MacHeist and MacUpdate bundles. I like both, but have been using TextExpander over Typinator for the past 6-8 months. Neither one is necessarily any better than the other, I just found myself liking TE more because of its setup as a control panel and the usefulness of the menubar icon to access the program and snipets.
Now, before some updates to fix the menubar icon and memory usage in TE, I would have agreed that Typinator is better. However the latest version of TE is rock solid.
November 20th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Let me add my only real complaints are these about TE:
1. Sometimes when using a snipet and then following up within a couple seconds with pasting text from the clipboard, I will paste the snipet instead of the original text I had copied or cut. However, trying the command after waiting 3-4 seconds works fine, and if I mess up the first time I simply try re-pasting again and all is well. Minor annoyance that I would love to see the developer fix if they are reading this.
2. I wish that TE would allow me to import my shortcuts from the latest version of Typinator. It will work for version 1 of Typintor, but anything beyond. Again, minor and only affects a small number of people who own both programs, but it would be a nice addition.
November 20th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Colin — We’re looking at whether we can modify the delay time for the temporary clipboard content, so hopefully we’ll be able to address that. As for Typinator 2 and beyond, they switched to an undocumented proprietary format for their content and so we’re unable to import that. TextExpander uses an XML file for its settings and content storage, so you can easily parse it with other applications. We feel it’s important that you can access your content and if you wish move it around. – Greg, SmileOnMyMac
November 20th, 2008 at 9:52 am
For me this software is really useful. Typinator, it’s competitor, is likewise good. If I didn’t own either, I’d buy into this promo. If, like me, you’re a “scripture typist” (seek and you shall find), you’ll find it especially useful. If you type a lot, it can really come in handy and cut down your workload. I mainly use it for standard html snippets, words I often misspell or can’t remember how to spell correctly, various salutations and closings, and for a variety of long, standard instructions/procedures relative to troubleshooting advice to others. Good software!
November 20th, 2008 at 9:59 am
I much prefer Typinator over TextExpander. I got Typinator in a previous ZOT.
November 20th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I’ve had TextExpander for a while and it works great. I compared it with Typinator and liked the macro expansion capabilities better.
One feature I really like is being able to have a snippet work with specific apps so HTML snippets don’t keep popping inside Pages or Word documents.
The only thing I wish it did better was proper string search, replacement, and substitution functions inside snippets. I use TE in XCode development, selecting a single variable then hitting a two-key combo and having it paste in the code for declaring properties. That alone has saved hours of tedious typing. But it would be nice if I could select a whole line and have TE split on spaces and take the middle item, take out a ‘;’ etc.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
There are other text expansion utilities, but Text Expander is my favorite of them. I haven’t had problems with it.
It’s great if you are a ninja coder or have a lot of correspondence to go through. It is also great if you are working with a lot of jargon specific words.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Expantastic! – Get It.
I absolutely love TextExpander. I use it every day and continue to find new uses for it. There are actually even more ways that you can use TextExpander besides just using snippets expanded from typing. I’ve expanded over 25,000 snippets and saved over 3 millions characters so far. The main web site covers the main uses but I wanted to talk about some of the most recent stuff added to TextExpander that everyone may not be using it for yet.
Here’s a couple of the newest things I’m using it for:
1. Symbols
Ever considered one of those applications for popping up a table special characters that you use from time to time? Using TextExpander, I create a Symbols group, copy and paste them in there, give them a name, and now they are at my finger tips from the menuet icon. Plus, I can create entries with multiple symbols as needed. For example:
⌃⌥⌘ (Control-Option-Command)
2. Short URLs
Using the new Applescript support and supplied snippets, you can create tinyurl, bit.ly, and tr.im shortened URLS without all the hassle. For example, copy the URL onto the clipboard, type /tinyurl and you have the short URL.
3. Text Clippings that you don’t expand by keystrokes. Using the Label field without creating an abbreviation to expand allows you to keep collections of clips you use infrequently or don’t suit themselves well to a memorable set of keystrokes. See my blog article for more on this:
http://tr.im/1bkc
Of course I’m still using it a ton for the main feature which is being able to assign text, graphics, etc. to abbreviations which expand as you type. Hint: Use a double letter at the start of the abbreviation. I use “hhome” for my home address for example. Google Map directions have never been so easy.
Finally, at this price you are absolutely stealing TextExpander. I paid the normal price a long time ago and its paid for itself 3 million times over. You’d be unwise not to give this one a second look at this deal. Do yourself a favor and get this one.
ok, type to expand the signature… typing ssig …. BOOM ….
Carl S.
Chief Evangelist
Agile Web Solutions
http://1password.com/
http://switchersblog.com/
November 20th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
> I much prefer Typinator over TextExpander.
That opinion is unhelpful without stating any reasons why.
I used and liked Textpander on Tiger so using TextExpander on Leopard would be easier than switching to Typinator. It’s tempting to pick up TE before this offer expires unless I discover some compelling reason to prefer Typinator. The feature comparison page on SmileOnMyMac’s site is helpful (if TE-biased) though I’m not sure it’s up-to-date with the current version of Typinator.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I can’t say anything better than “Expantastic”, so I’ll just add my ¢2 and say I use TE everyday and couldn’t imagine answering support emails w/o it.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
I own both TypeIt4Me and Typinator and have just picked up TextExpander.
I mainly use T4Me, but there are times when it gets buggy (usually around OS version upgrades or because of incompatibilities with new versions of other utilities). Then I’ve usually switched to Texpander (the old freeware version) for a while. To me, at the moment T4Me and TE seem more or less on a par.
Typinator I don’t use so often. I only have it installed on one Mac where I use FileMaker because of the included FM snippets. I really hate it that I apparently can’t have several snippets with shortcuts with the same first characters (ee and ees for example) because it will expand as soon as I typed the first characters. If it’s possible, I haven’t figured out how.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
This is a TRUE story. Late last week I thought to myself, I really wish something like Textexpander would show up on MacZot (or any of the other discount sites out there). BLAM! Here it is. Bought it at 12:10am. Get this! It’s sick!
November 20th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Woah. Didn’t realize TE supported AppleScripts. Thanks Carl!
November 20th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Well if Dave and Carl are using TE it must be really good since these guys really know how to make super fantastic good software them self.
Off to the deal and don’t forget to buy 1Password should you by any chance have missed it.
November 20th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
@ Sekhmet: to use ee and ees in Typinator just add a space after each one or just after ee. I have several like this. Instead of having just ee as your shortcut, type “ee_” with the _ being a space. That solves the problem of ees filling in as ee.
I, personally, use Typinator every day of my life and can’t live without it (slight exaggeration), but that’s not to say I wouldn’t feel the same way about TextExpander. It just happens that I got Typinator on one of the promos a couple of years ago, so that’s what I use. It could have just as easily been TextExpander. I don’t think you can go wrong with either one, and at this discount, if you don’t already have an application like this, you should go for it.
November 20th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
@sjk – the reason I prefer Typinator over TextExpander is I always found Typinator to be more responsive and to work as expected. When I tried TE it seemed hit and miss as to whether an expansion would work, and it also seemed to slow my system down.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:42 am
Thanks for the followup, Bryan. I thought some of the performance issues with TE were in earlier versions of 2.x and have subsequently been fixed.
Anyway, I intended to get this ZOT offer last night but unfortunately it had already expired because of the timezone difference. :(