![]() ![]() Also, I like making temporary snippets to handle common phrases-like the name of a product or a company-that appear often in my writing as I work on a particular project but will never be used after the project is finished. ![]() TextExpander has a very efficient way of adding new snippets. Things have changed over the past few months. My M1 MacBook Air has brought me back to the Mac in a big way. I no longer write anything longer than a text or an email on my iPad, and I don’t expect that to change. So cross-platform expansion isn’t as important as it once was. 1 And although Smile seems to have fixed the crashing problem I was having a month or two ago, I’m still leery of TextExpander’s reliance on a bespoke syncing service. So I’m back to using Keyboard Maestro as my snippet expansion tool. It works well, and I didn’t have to do too much work to switch over. In a rare display of forethought, I didn’t delete my snippet macros. I had merely disabled them when I started using TextExpander again-now I just had to re-enable them. Yes, there were some snippets from TextExpander that I’d made in the past few years that needed to be moved over to Keyboard Maestro, but that didn’t take much time. Some were even improved in the translation.Īnd I decided to tackle the one big advantage TextExpander had over Keyboard Maestro: the ability to make a new snippet quickly. By combining AppleScript with Keyboard Maestro itself, I now have a way to make a KM snippet out of what’s on the clipboard.įor example, let’s say I’m writing a report about products made by Mxyzptlk Industries. To make a snippet for that name, I copy it to the clipboard and invoke my new Make Temporary Snippet from Clipboard macro. Where I can define the trigger (I chose “ mi”) and adjust the expansion if necessary. After clicking OK, I have a new snippet in my Snippet - Temporary group. The first step asks the user for the snippet information, prepopulating the expansion field with the contents of the clipboard. ![]()
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