My Favorite TextExpander Shortcut Snippets

I’ve been a long time TextExpander user. You don’t know of TextExpander? Shame!

TextExpander lets you instantly insert snippets of text from a repository of emails, boilerplate and other content, as you type – using a quick search or abbreviation.

My common shortcut snippets include:

• Email: z@zl into zorn@zornlabs.com and m@m.com for mike@mikezornek.com.
• Date: ddate
• Time: ttime – very handy while testing UI as a piece of dynamic content, yet descriptive and ordered.
• Common Google Terms: -ep into Elixir Phoenix.
• Phone Numbers: cphone and hphone into the real phone numbers.
• Support Email Replies – when I did a lot of that thing.
• URL to my meeting calendar: -meeting into https://savvycal.com/zorn/chat
• Common Xcode Comments: -mark into:

// MARK: - Outlets
// MARK: - Properties
// MARK: - Life Cycle
// MARK: - Methods
// MARK: - Private

• SwiftLint Disables:

// swiftlint:disable rule_name
[CLIPBOARD]
// swiftlint:enable rule_name

I added a new one today, for the common need to convert a title-like string into a filename-friendly one.

"%pasteboard".toLowerCase().replace(/ /g, "-");

Thus expanding -urlp into “Nurturing Your Community During Lock Down” (the clipboard) into nurturing-your-community-during-lock-down.

I’m on the hunt for more too. Let me know if you have any recommendations!

About the Author. Mike Zornek is a developer and teacher focusing on product design and development with a heavy focus on Elixir and LiveView. In between his projects, Mike helps other teams through consulting. During off hours, he enjoyed watching Phillies baseball and playing relaxing video games.