I don’t know if this is possible, but I notice when I typed “labor day” in Day One and other editors, it does not suggest the correction “Labor Day”. When typing “christmas” in the same applications, there was a red line under the word and right-clicking showed a list of correct spellings.
Is there a way to have macOs 15.6 detect multi-word US Holiday names and suggest corrections for incorrect capitalization? My spelling is configure for US English with all setting on except for “double-space inserts period”
I updated my post with my keyboard and spelling settings. I retested typing labor day in several applications and here are the results.
Unclutter Notes: corrected
Apple Notes: corrected
Day One Journal: Not corrected
Firefox browser(writing this comment!): Not corrected.
Visual Studio Code: Not corrected.
So it does work sometimes. I did a few Google searches and it seems the spottiness is to be expected. It will work in some applications and not others. I will need to document where it works and set my expectations accordingly.
Hmm, Labor Day auto-capitalizes for me. Christmas as well. Christmas should auto-fix, not show a squiggly line, so I wonder if auto-correction is somehow not on or disabled by Day One.
You could set Labor Day in text replacements. I have a couple in there that adjust capitalization.
Double hmm. “labor day” doesn’t auto-capitalize for me. Furthermore, I couldn’t have the system Text Replacements replace “labor day” with “Labor Day” because it reports that spaces are not allowed in the typed in string. I suppose if I needed to type it allot I would have it replace “lday” with “Labor Day”, “nyd” with “New Year’s Day”, and so on.
That list of apps makes sense. The text replacement happens within the system libraries for text input, not as a global interceptor of keystrokes such as Alfred/KeyboardMaestro/TextExpander. Firefox and VSCode use a non-native text stack. I’m surprised Day One isn’t using native (I’ve not used it.)
Hah, yes, you’re right. All my entries are either single words, hyphenated or email addresses. Interesting!
