Save Time With TextExpander

Today I decided I should share with you the one Mac application that saves us so much time. Since we sale and support software a lot of common questions get asked a lot. For instance when someone purchases installation we have to email them and get all their details. It is pretty mundane and if we get a lot of installations then very repetitive.

Enter TextExpander, now instead of typing up the same response I write “68install” and it automagically becomes a three paragraph response outlining everything we need from the customer. But the magic doesn’t end there. You can add custom snippets and export them. We have one group that is shared between the office and we keep the common work related items in it.

I have lot of groups setup. My most common are work which is predefined emails. bbcode for use on the forums and coding which I have a lot of presets like ,a becomes the full link tag.

How can this help you? As a classified site owner I am sure you get emails asking the same questions over and over. Maybe advertising information, how to, or even someone contacting you on accident trying to contact a seller.

Hopefully some of you will find this useful and save you a few hours a month. (I have currently saved three hours of my life this month.)