Hi Amanda - Great idea - ability to embed PDFs inside snippets.
We will add this to our feature tracker. I am sure, it would be valuable to others 
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Thank you for the great suggestion! Keep them coming! 
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Perhaps some formatting for the Fill-ins. I have played around a lot with nesting fill-ins to make it so I can use one Snippet for a lot of different purposes. Usually I name the Optional Section so I have an idea of which box for what however it. If you have a lot of this is it is difficult to distinguish what will be included and what is the Snippet name. In this example below it will actually say Hello Good Afternoon but it isn’t really clear since, for example “phone” looks exactly like “Hello” but one is the text and one is the name of a fill-in. In addition when nesting a lot of things it becomes easy to misplace which (end optional) goes with which optional section perhaps it could have matching colors for the functions or have the the (end optional) display as (fill-in name end)? Basically making it easier to know that you have set the Snippet up correctly as well as also knowing what is a non-printed title or actual text.
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I’d like to use regular expressions as a trigger for expansions, for example “d+3d” expands to the date 3 days in the future or “d-12w” to 12 weeks before today.
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Hi Amanda - These are great valuable inputs. Appreciate adding visuals to the description, that really helps understand the issue in greater detail.
We’ve heard this from others who leverage fill-ins. We will log this as +1 to our feature tracker.
Thank you for writing in! Keep the feature requests coming!
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TextExpander doesn’t always expand on iOS. I will need to retype the snippet to have it fire off correctly. Better performance on mobile, would be my request.
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I feel I have a lot of snippets that I don’t use anymore. I often have projects where I make a snippet for and after the project is finished, the snippet stays since I don’t actively delete it.
For a (regular) cleanup, it would be useful to get some statistics on individual snippets connected to time. For example, it would be great to see my least used snippets in the last month/year/arbitrary time frame.
PS: Maybe there is a way to access this information and read it out through a script. Happy to write such script, if TextExpander lets me know where it’s stored. 
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I love the idea, @HelmutHauser! We often think about managing snippet clutter over time, especially after projects wrap up, and your idea for a time based cleanup is excellent.
I keep a non-expanding group called _archive for this very reason! 
Snippet usage statistics aren’t stored in a locally accessible file that a script could read today, so I don’t have a magic answer for this today.
Could you walk us through what your ideal cleanup session would look like?
For instance, if you had that list of 30 snippets you hadn’t used in the 180 days:
- Would you want to review them one by one before taking action?
- Would you prefer to select them all and delete them in bulk?
- Or, would an option to move them to a designated “Archive” group be the most helpful workflow for you?
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Thank you for the positive reply, Jason! 
To be honest, I haven’t completely thought it through. However, it would be great if there would be a possibility to order snippets based on how often they have been used in a flexible (i.e., I can choose it / maybe some are predefined like 1 year, 6 months) time frame. As a second step, it should allow me to select multiple snippets to delete (or move them to an archived list or waste bucket of some sort).
Btw., having the numbers for all individual snippets could be used for other things as well. For example, it could provide users with insights into which snippets are the most used ones and therefore inspire them to make more of this type (i.e., applying the 80/20 rule).
It could also be used to make some nice visual representations, which can motivate people to use it even more. For example, I like the already existing summary of how much time I have saved this month. One could add the top 3 snippets this month (usage / amount of words / time) or something similar.
One could push the idea even and add information on which application the snippet was used.
I would like a pause option.
So many times in forms I’m waiting for the browser or system to catch up and so when I want to input a pause to allow a selection box to load or just something to allow the system to catch up would be amazing.
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I have thought of another one. Sometimes i have a complex snippet where i am copy and pasting things in from another screen and I finish it all out and realize i forgot to click in to the field where the snippet should expand and I lost the whole thing and have to do it again. Some sort of ctl+z that brings me back to the snippet I just had the edit window for the fill-in fields open for would be super helpful so that I can go back and then reclick where I want that to expand rather than have to redo the whole thing. (Does that make sense?)
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Hi Jonathan - This is great input. We’ve heard this from other customers too. We will add a +1 to the functionality - add pause/delay/wait within snippets and between macros.
Thank you for writing in! Keep the feature requests coming!
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I have another idea (and this may sound like I’m stoned, but I am stone-cold sober 
). I would love to get a ‘preview’ of sorts as I’m typing an abbreviation to make sure I’m typing it correctly.
For example, is it ggm to expand to “Good Morning,” or is it ggm to get “Good Morning” — like autofill, but it’s showing the snippets that match what you’re typing closest. How would it determine if you’re typing an abbreviation versus regular typing? I will leave that to the experts.
Heck, it can do a “getting hotter/getting colder” needle to see if I even have a snippet that matches what I’m typing.
I use Chrome and Safari. In Chrome the extension helps me to use rich text in gmail. But in Safari this does not work good. With the extension this would greatly help me, So I really want a Safari extension.
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I’d like a version of TE that works on an iPhone. Last year, TE stopped working. After many, many emails I was instructed to download and install a beta version of TE. which worked until today when the iPhone notified me that the beta version has expired. So, is there a version of TE that works on an iPhone? if not, why not?
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Pete Rock
Hi Peter, welcome! I addressed your questions here:
I’d like to add some thoughts here as well. I find that I have snippets that I use infrequently, or are very new, and I haven’t built the muscle memory for the shortcut. Command / or Control / (depending on which platform I’m on) is helpful for finding the snippet, but I’d love to be able to generate a list of snippets by least used, new within the last x number of days, and most frequently used. Here’s an example use case: I create a lot of training videos that end users end up requesting, rather than searching our video repository copying the URL, etc. I’ll create a snippet, but some of these I’ll use 2-3 times a day and others on once or twice a week. It would be nice to create a cheat sheet that I could tape to my monitor for quick reference. Having a way to generate a report would speed up the process. Or is there a way to tag snippets and generate a report based on tags?
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the feature which i am looking forward is to create snippet from mobile with texte editor in it why ? because i a have started using textexpander in mobile i get ai prompts idea’s many times but i can’t save them anytime Note: i know i can’t use onenote or notion for saving idea’s but i have to again create a reminder for myself in textexpander is desktop everytime this cycle is annoying
Conditional Logic allows users to not spend time on creating snippets, hence reduce the numbers of abbreviations to remember.
So, it is a big “Yes” to “Conditional Logic”!
After a massive reorganisation of all my snippets few months ago, I started to use the “Group Prefix” more and more.
One problem is that the UI is not consistent, as one can see below:
The ”Group Prefix” is only shown in the central column and not in the “Abbreviation” field.
One could be fixed by conditionally add a “Group Prefix” at the left of the “Abbreviation” field for snippets that do have a “Group Prefix”.