{"id":18562,"date":"2017-08-07T16:07:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T20:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18562"},"modified":"2017-08-07T16:08:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T20:08:21","slug":"creating-new-snippets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/07\/creating-new-snippets\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating New Snippets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2017\/08\/return-to-textexpander\/\">Dr. Drang<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2017\/08\/return-to-textexpander\/\"><p>I returned to TextExpander for two reasons. First, I have an iPad and want to do more writing on it. I didn&rsquo;t realize how much I relied on expansions&mdash;even those that don&rsquo;t run scripts&mdash;until I didn&rsquo;t have them. TextExpander is the only solution that works on both the Mac and iOS.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ettoresoftware.com\/mac-apps\/typeit4me\/\">TypeIt4Me<\/a> does work on iOS, but its keyboard extension is <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/06\/textexpander-6-and-textexpander-com\/\">much less convenient<\/a> than the TextExpander SDK, which many apps have integrated.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2017\/08\/return-to-textexpander\/\"><p>I noticed in the past year that I haven&rsquo;t been making the sort of throwaway snippets I used to make regularly in TextExpander to help me write reports that require the repeated use of technical phrases or product names. This meant more typing and more editing, because misspelled product names and inconsistent terminology kept creeping into my writing. This isn&rsquo;t a knock on Keyboard Maestro&mdash;it&rsquo;s a more general tool that just doesn&rsquo;t have streamlined methods for creating new text substitution macros.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I have been <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/07\/textexpander-by-subscription-one-year-later\/\">using LaunchBar<\/a>, and here&rsquo;s how you can easily create new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obdev.at\/resources\/launchbar\/help\/Snippets.html\">snippets<\/a> with it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To create a snippet at the top level of the default Snippets folder, you can just press the Snippets shortcut and then Command-N. Enter a name and then Shift-Return, which is the normal keyboard shortcut for editing a text file. On my Mac, this will open it in BBEdit.<\/li>\n<li>If you don&rsquo;t press Shift-Return, the content of the snippet will be the same as its name. For a short snippet, it can be easier to enter the <em>content<\/em> of the snippet in LaunchBar. Then press Shift-Command-R and rename it to the actual name that you want. This lets you do everything without leaving LaunchBar. Or, for some snippets, it works fine to have the name and content match.<\/li>\n<li>To create a snippet in a subfolder or in one of the Additional Snippet Folders, search LaunchBar for the folder, then press Tab and send the folder to the &ldquo;New Text Document Here&rdquo; action. This will bring up a dialog asking for a filename, and then it will open the file for editing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Drang: I returned to TextExpander for two reasons. First, I have an iPad and want to do more writing on it. I didn&rsquo;t realize how much I relied on expansions&mdash;even those that don&rsquo;t run scripts&mdash;until I didn&rsquo;t have them. TextExpander is the only solution that works on both the Mac and iOS. TypeIt4Me does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[905,31,1380,562,467,30,32,1381,468],"class_list":["post-18562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-extensions","tag-ios","tag-ios-10","tag-keyboardmaestro","tag-launchbar","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-12","tag-textexpander"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18565,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18562\/revisions\/18565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}