We’ve updated our pricing model to match our new service. We certainly welcome your feedback on what you’d like to see first. Over the coming months, we’ll build out TextExpander for Windows’ feature set.
Inline search via Control-/ is coming soon. You simply sign in to your TextExpander account and type to expand. There’s no editing interface in this version. We’ve also included support for fill-ins.
TEXTEXPANDER SMILE WINDOWS
All want the power of TextExpander, no matter which device they or their colleagues are using.įor our first Windows beta, we’ve focused on the nuts and bolts of TextExpander, namely plain text expansion. Some work on teams with both Macs and Windows PCs.
TEXTEXPANDER SMILE PC
Our top support question is: do you make a version of TextExpander for Windows? Some of those asking have a Mac at home and a Windows PC at work. Share a group with someone, and it’s available on all of their devices. Add a snippet on one device, and it’s available on all your other devices. We use the same responsive features in our apps, so your changes are reflected immediately on all of your devices. We’ve built a responsive system based on Meteor, and we’re excited to host it on Galaxy.
The key to making this all work is our new web application with secure, centralized storage. Create an organization, and share them with detailed access controls, team management, and centralized billing. Share them with your friends, fellow volunteers, and colleagues. Share them among your devices – Mac, iPhone, iPad, and now Windows (beta). You can also find other handy groups from TextExpander users like yourself.We’re thrilled to debut the new TextExpander, which makes it possible to share your snippet groups with ease. If you have a group of snippets you’d like to share with us, we encourage you to publish it in our Public Groups. If you have a need for week numbers, see Previous Week Numbers Using TextExpander.Īs always, if you have any cool uses of TextExpander, let us know.
TEXTEXPANDER SMILE HOW TO
If you like to use multiple languages on your computer, especially ones that are not your computer’s system language, you’ll want to see our post, How To Expand Dates in Other Languages with TextExpander. This neat aspect allows you to expand a date to reference “due in 15 days” or “last week.” Extra date and time snippet ideas Future dates and timesĪs mentioned earlier, you can set up a snippet to expand a date in the future or past using some snippet “math.” To learn more about expanding a date or time other than “right now,” check out our post, Using TextExpander Date and Time Math. While you have to do a bit of lookup to find how to represent the date you want, the benefit of unicode is it supports a wide variety of things, such as GMT offset, week of the year, and much more.Īs an example, while our date, January 4, 2017, looks like this in TextExpander’s macros, %B %e, %Y, it would look like this in unicode, %date:MMMM dd, yyyy%. You can learn more about using unicode formatting with TextExpander in our post, More Elaborate Date Formatting with TextExpander. If you want to go beyond the macros readily available in TextExpander, you’ll be happy to know that TextExpander supports unicode formats. You can find a list of some supported macros in our Help, Date, Time, and Math Macros. Each percentage+letter combination, called a macro, is replaced by the piece of date it represents as you expand your snippet. If you are familiar with the macros which make up dates and times, you can type them in by hand.įor example, the date snippet which expands to Januwould look like this in the TextExpander window, %B %e, %Y. You can watch how to do this in our video, The Editing Bar. The macros which represent each of those date portions will enter into your snippet.
One easy way is to open up a snippet in TextExpander and choose sections of date, like the month and year, in the editing bar. Make a date snippet using provided menu items TextExpander offers a couple of ways to make a date snippet, and the variety of ways has grown over the years to allow for more complex and customized formats. Make up a simple shortcut to expand into your preferred date format, such as January 4, 2017, or 2017.01.04, assuming of course that this is today’s date. No more having to double check with the calendar app to know what the date is while setting up meeting notes or sending emails with future due dates in them. With TextExpander you can quickly insert custom formatted dates and times into your documents, emails, and messages as you type.
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