The snippets are just text files on disk, and so can be deleted or renamed directly from LaunchBar like any other file. LaunchBar is a good fit because I use it everywhere, all the time. It’s not a matter of whether I should switch but what to. Sooner or later it’s going to stop working. Well, the overriding reason is still that TextExpander 5 is done. And because snippets are part of LaunchBar there are some restrictions in using them with LaunchBar. It’s a similar advantage to when I moved my Safari bookmarklets to LaunchBar: if I forget the shortcut I can just type what I want.īut so far this is just like TextExpander’s own inline search. Setting a keyboard shortcut for snippets and enabling “sub-search only” means that they’re not cluttering up your usual results either: they’re available when I type ⌃⌥⌘Space but otherwise out the way. Instead I settled on using LaunchBar’s snippets, which you search in exactly the same way that you search the main LaunchBar catalogue. I am bad at using TextExpander and I feel bad.īecause of this, I didn’t really want to switch snippets to Keyboard Maestro or one of the TextExpander-alikes. And then I forgot the shortcut for that and would periodically open the menubar - where of course the shortcut for inline search is not listed - and get frustrated each time. Then we’re back to the snippet reminder again the next time I do type the phrase.įor a while I was using the inline search, which is really good. That’s not necessarily helped by TextExpander encouraging me to create snippets for things that I type frequently for a short amount of time, only to then not type the phrase and forget the snippet exists entirely. I am not good at remembering snippet abbreviations. I get the snippet reminder notification all the time, to the point where it’s frustrating. I barely use the features of TextExpander 5, rarely create new snippets, and generally am bad at using it. There isn’t anything in the subscription version for me.
#Export textexpander snippets update
Well, that, or it’s actually sensible to think about switching away from TextExpander the last update to the non-subscription version (5.1.4) was on February 21 2016. I’m a bit behind.Īnd since everything on here is effectively hero-worship to Dr Drang, it’s time to catch up. Catching up on my RSS feeds, I’ve just been through Dr Drang’s posts from nearly a year ago about switching away from TextExpander ( 1, 2, 3, 4).
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