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In this final demo, I show how to add new snippets to TextExpander and how easy it is to make it work for you. In this demo, I give even more examples of TextExpander in action. TextExpander has a video showing how easy fill-in snippets are to create. The example I show uses fill-in snippets, where I can customize the text before it gets entered.
In this demo, I show TextExpander in action as I create new show notes for an episode. View demonstrations of TextExpander in action below Demosīelow are three demos that show TextExpander in action. When someone gets in touch with me asking about how to join the Teaching in Higher Ed Slack group, by having a “canned” response, I am able to get back to more people who have questions or suggestions. A link to the quote graphics from the episodeīy automating that part of the email, I can spend more time letting them know the kind of response I have been getting about their episode on social media or some of my own personal reflections about our conversation.Information about where the podcast is distributed ( Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc.).There are a few basic pieces of information I always send: When someone comes on the podcast as a guest, I do use TextExpander to help me curate a message of gratitude to the person.
Instead, my approach is to consider that whatever time I can save through the automation that TextExpander affords me means that either I can give that much more of a personal approach as I customize boilerplate text, or that I have additional time to be able to reply to more people. You Can Still Keep a Personal Touchīefore I get to that, however, I did want to mention that my goal in saving time with TextExpander isn’t to lose the personal touch that comes from authentically-written prose. I have created three, short demos that let you peek behind the curtain to see how I use TextExpander. However, talking to you about TextExpander isn’t quite as powerful as getting to show it in action.
This application is one of the first programs I ever install on a new computer because it is so essential to me getting work done. If you have been listening to the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast over the last few months, you have heard me talk about TextExpander (available both on the Mac and Windows).