We’re thrilled to have you here, @Amy-LynnTaylor !
Hi everyone, I’m Jason, I’m an Energy Specialist with Origin Energy in Australia.
We use TextExpander for better productivity in our roles.
Looking forward to learning more TE tips and tricks 
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Hello 
, I’m Beki and I am a Community Manager at Standing on Giants. I’ve used TE in my previous job and soon found I missed the ease and efficiency of TE in my day-to-day role and so I downloaded it for myself 
I was very interested in seeing that you had a community forum when the email landed in my inbox and thought I’d pop by to show some support. 
Hoping to learn some new skills here, to make my work more efficient and give me some time back to focus on other projects.
Thanks for the invite! 
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Welcome, @JasonSennitt!
Welcome, @BekiG! Any tips for us?
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Hi everyone, I’m Michael Davies. I’ve been using Text Expander every day since 2016 (I just checked)
I run a First Aid Training company so TEx makes repetitive tasks a breeze. I save so much time it’s unreal.
I’m looking forward to seeing other peoples ideas.
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Hello everyone! I’m Bruce, active user of TE and active promoter for its use on my team. I’m located in Kansas City and work for a small nonprofit foundation. I look forward to learning from the community.
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Hey @josh.centers - thank you for the welcome!
Tips for TE? 
I was hoping I could come here for that!
My only one would be to check the ‘Suggested snippets’ every week for commonly typed phrases that could be made into a TE.
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Haha, I meant for managing a community, but you might be able to teach us some things we didn’t know about TextExpander.
Ooooh, yes plenty @josh.centers 
Human connection on a digital platform - I’m there for it! I was genuinely being nosey by joining, but hoping to learn hints and tips along the way.
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Hi, I am Thomas, 73 y, german. Retired all-things-apple-coach, support and repair man. PC user since 1991: Atari, 1996 win 95 and up and Mac Powerbook. iPhone from G3, iPad Air 2. - I still run my favorite Atari software, Clalamus SL, inside a Atari-Emulator inside Win 11 in Parallels.
I use TE since it came out and was reported on. Maybe even in macOS Classic. On and off I joined the betatester crew.
What has convinced me year after year: On all new systems and worlds I can use my snippets, support reacts quickly and precise (THANKS!).
I bring one ages old complaint with me and will file it in the right place in this community:
I have a lot of web-addresses as snippets. About 20% of the time the URL is expanded with the first character of the snippet put in front of htt…, to which Safari reacts with an error of course. – Many years ago I filed a bug report on this and got a reply that this was due to Safari and there was nothing the developers could do to remedy this.
It is 2025 and I want to change this. Where can I post this issue to the community?
Have a good day all!
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Hi everyone,
I’m Hani Sarji, a New York lawyer focusing on trusts & estates, elder law, and tax law. I’m self-employed and write a blog at Wills, Trusts, and Estates. I’ve been using TextExpander for over a decade—truly every single day.
TextExpander is essential to my workflow. I use it to generate clauses for retainer agreements, standardize client email templates, and automate formatting for legal writing and blogging. Much of my programming actually starts in TextExpander. I use JavaScript with regular expressions to build powerful, logic-driven snippets that calculate, format, and restructure text dynamically. This includes conditional Markdown formatting, date calculations, logic-driven fill-ins, and regex-powered clean-up tools. It’s an incredibly flexible tool that supports both my law practice and my writing life.
One example: I began with a few snippets to format blog posts and quickly realized I could automate my entire publishing workflow. What started in TextExpander evolved into a robust system that now lets me publish blog posts and even ebooks directly from outlines and Markdown files. I wrote about that journey here: Automation: Publishing Ebooks from Outlines and Blog Posts from Files.
The iPad is my primary computer. I still use the original TextExpander app, even though it’s no longer maintained, because it remains incredibly useful. I’m testing the new beta, which is a good start, but I think there’s still work ahead to make it great for iPad users. I’ve shared feedback before and would be happy to volunteer my time to help improve the app.
Looking forward to being part of this community and learning from others here!
Best,
Hani
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Welcome, Hani! It would be awesome if you could start a new topic with some examples!
Hey there—I have been a college soccer coach for almost 40 years and was introduced to TE at least 15 years ago, probably by @macsparky, Merlin Mann, or somebody talking about David Allen’s GTD. I am sure I only scratch the surface of what is possible, but I have now started using it in AI prompts. Cheers!
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Hi Nick, welcome! Would you want to share some of your AI prompt Snippets here?
I am Arthur Ray a bankruptcy attorney in Memphis. I have used Texexpander for a very very long time.
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I’m Pete. I mainly use TextExpander as a University lecturer running asynchronous online courses. I started off saving a minute a week and regularly save 1-2 hours a week now.
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Greetings - like others above, long-time TE user; it has been an invaluable part of my Mac setup for 10+ years.
While there are many uses and benefits, the one I’ll highlight is that as a job hunter, it has saved me on countless occasions where, despite having a cover letter and resume, a job application requires me to re-type contact and work experience info into form fields. Since for every job over the past couple of decades I have created Shortcuts for regularly used info (my title, company email, company phone number, company address, company URL, etc.), I have access to all the salient info with a few quick keystrokes (ex.: “wctitle”, “wcem”, “wc#”, “wcaddy”, “wcurl”), instead of having to copy-paste this stuff from another source.
Anyway, happy to be here and have a space to nerd out about TE productivity.
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Hi, I’m Derek, a graphic designer and visual scribe based in Edinburgh, UK.
I have been using TextExpander for longer than I can remember! My shoddy typing makes TE essential!
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Hi! I’m Julia, a nutrition coach in Southern California. I’ve used TE for a couple years, but I know I have barely scratched the surface of using it well. Perhaps being part of this community will get me digging in a bit more.
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Hello! I go by Herb and I’ve been using TE since what seems like forever ago. I’m an aerospace consultant working on electric airplanes recently. I’ve been in aerospace research and technology for over half a century. I started working in IT in 1970 as a student at University, and building shortcuts was all-important (using formatted cards on an IBM keypunch machine allowed me to write my FORTRAN more efficiently, and when I moved into high-speed teletype – oh baby, nosebleed speed at 110 baud! – shortcuts in ED was awesome).
Currently, I rely on TE for all of my repetitive heavy-lifting. My sig to emails (one for business another for personal), I do my health logging in Drafts and having a snippet for weight, temperature, blood pressure, etc., that’s human-readable and formatted well, is important.
I’m dabbling in JavaScript to do some active snippets that are tailored for me. Wicked cool!
Delighted to join the community. I hope I can contribute, but I expect I’ll get more out from you all – already got updated to TE for iOS beta 7 on iPhone and fixed a long-standing problem for me.
Thanks!
Herb
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