What's your favorite TextExpander feature?

[mel]

What’s your favorite TextExpander feature? Mine is keyboard macros.

Keyboard macros in TextExpander let you insert keyboard presses into your snippets to help you navigate to different fields and complete actions.

Once you build this snippet, here’s how you’ll use it:

• Open a new tab
• In the URL bar, enter the abbreviation – in my example, we’re going to kick off a search in HubSpot using #hbs
• Fill in the fill-in field with your search term
• Click OK to hit Enter to watch the expansion happen in the URL bar
• Since you used the Enter keyboard macro, the Snippet will hit enter a second time for you so once you expand, the URL is off to the races
• Last step = you’re in HubSpot/end webpage with the search you want to executed having been performed and you can just navigate the results

If you’re wondering how to find the correct URL to use, here’s how!
Go to the app of your choice and perform a search – here in Google Drive I’m searching for a company name, TextExpanderLooking at what populates in the URL bar after you hit enter to start the search, you can see you’ll need to add the TextExpander Fill-in after the = when you build your snippet. (edited)

[josh.centers]

I actually can’t talk about my favorite feature yet, because it’s still a secret!

However, I can talk about a feature I love: The capability to insert the contents of your clipboard into a Snippet. This has a lot of uses, but mine is very simple: I have a Snippet with only the clipboard contents and the Content Type set to Plain Text.

This way, whenever I copy text with formatting already applied, like from a web page or Google Doc, I can paste it into the document I’m working on without bringing over the unwanted formatting. Outside of txp for TextExpander, this is probably my single most-used Snippet.

[jason]

It has to be the expansion pop sound, right!?

Ok, fine, that is tied for favorite with Inline Search. The ability to bring up my entire library of Snippets to search anywhere I am typing with a quick keyboard shortcut is magic!

In case you haven’t tried it, the Keyboard Shortcuts are:
macOS: ⌘ + /
Windows: ctrl + /
Chrome Extension: ctrl + .

[ahoobing]

Inline Search is also my favorite feature. At TextExpander, we have tons of snippets, and it is impossible to remember the abbreviation for each one. With just a couple of keystrokes, I can pull up my “second brain” and find the snippet I need.

[masha]

I use this everyday as well Josh!

[macfixer]

Secret features are the best features!

[josh.centers]

@macfixer I guess I can share the secret now: My current favorite feature is Snippet Activity, which gives you Google Docs-style revision history, letting you see every edit to a Snippet and restore prior versions. It’s currently only available for Enterprise admins, but we are exploring expanding it to other tiers.

Snippet Activity: A New Feature for Tracking Snippet Changes

We wanted to give you a sneak peek at Snippet Activity — a new feature being tested by Enterprise account admins. It provides visibility into actions taken across Snippets, like who created, edited, deleted, and restored Snippets in your TextExpander account making it easy to keep Snippets accurate and up to date. At a high level, Snippet Activity lets you: See who did what and when Revert Snippets to a previous version Restore deleted Snippets Check out this video to see Snippet Activity in…

[macfixer]

“Who screwed up my snippet?!?”
“…oh, I did”

— Me, probably