Summer of (maybe) Leaving Text Expander

[MitchWagner]

I experimented with dumping TextExpander in December 2018.

Experiment: Replacing TextExpander with MacOS/iOS text substitutions

My system is to start a shortcut with a letter indicating what kind of text string follows. Primarily that’s “t” for twitter handle, “c” for company name. That’s followed by a q, then followed by the first few letters of the shortcut. Thus, tqli results in @light_reading. cqmi results in “Microsoft Corp.,” and so on. I have dozens and dozens of those. When I run into a conflict when creating a new one, I edit the old one to add more letters until it becomes unique. Thus, if I encounter another …

According to that thread, I went back to TE a short time later — I don’t actually remember, myself. I do know that I have not used TE for quite some time, and I don’t miss it.