HOWTO: Inserting the Current Date into a Snippet

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In a recent webinar, Jason from the product team demonstrated how to insert the current date with a Snippet in any format you choose.

Inserting the Date in a TextExpander Snippet

You can find a couple of example Snippets in this topic:

What's a phrase you never want to type again?

After writing thousands of blog about tech and productivity: “workflows”. It’s not really long enough for a Snippet, I’m just tired of typing it.

For more date and time tricks, see this post:

Quarters and Other Date Formats using Unicode

The standard Date and Time macros in the snippet editor can cover a lot of basic use cases. But if you’re looking for more options or complex formatting, you might be able to get what you’re looking for using the Unicode Date Format macro. [Unicode Date Format macro] You can find it in the snippet editor under the “Date/Time math” menu, and it allows you to enter a Date Format Pattern to expand date information that the basic macros don’t include, like quarters, timezones, and the week of the…