What's your TextExpander Wish List?

[Secret-HQ]

I have a snippet group called ‡ TEXTEXPANDER WISH LIST. Here’s what’s in it, from “most yearned for” to “would be nice”:

1. snippet collections
   I have many collections of snippet groups (Emoji, Diacritics, Special Characters, Non-English Characters, Comics) that I’d love to share as massive all-in-one snippet groups — but they’re just too darned big to build out and manage that way. (And it would probably be easier for subscribers to see them broken into their smaller parts, too.) What if they could be linked together as snippet collections and shared/unshared/subscribed to as collections? (Collections is just what I call them. I didn’t want to call them libraries, as library to me implies a user’s entire set of snippet groups. (Wouldn’t it be cool if a user could share his/her/its entire library, though? Then you could create users to manage departmental sets of snippets within organizations.)

2. bulk editing
   How I’d love to be able to apply a single change to a selection of snippets, all in one go! Especially changing the Content Type, Delimiter rules, and Case rules.

3. missing snippet indicator
   You know how the snippet label pill turns teal in the group list to indicate there’s a conflict with another snippet? I’d love to have some sort of color indicator in the body of a snippet to indicate when a nested snippet is undefined — when TextExpander can’t find that abbreviation to expand in the user library.

4. rich text snippet group descriptions
   This would allow me to explain and document my snippet groups better. In particular, I could use tables to organize expansion examples. The lack of access to basic formatting like italics, colored text, and superscripts leads to some BBS-y text in my group descriptions.

5. contributor pages for public snippets
   I know I can search for contributors by name, but I’d love to be able to bookmark a page with all the public contributions from a given user. Dream big: It would be cool to be able to follow that page as an RSS feed with newly added groups at the top.

6. icon colors in the tray
   I’d love to have different-colored icons for TextExpander in the system tray based on its availability/state. Maybe a default orange (logged in and ready to expand), yellow (syncing with the cloud), red (loading/not ready to use/something’s wrong), and blue (working offline with cached snippets).