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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 17, 2013 at 03:29 PM
Anyone interested in this kind of ‘snippet management’ software might want to try Text Paster, featured today in Bits du Jour:
http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/text-paster
Please don’t consider this as any kind of recommendation, I do not use this kind of software myself.
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 15, 2013 at 03:04 PM
After about 9 mo. with WordExpander, I reached a dead end with it. Currently I’m putting PhraseExpander through its paces, and planning to summarise my experience in a review in 3 months’ time.
I’m focusing on PE for academic uses (qualitative research and writing), which is likely to differ from how medical doctors use it. But if anyone is curious about any particular aspect, let me know, and I’ll try to cover it in the review.
More here:
http://drandus.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/from-wordexpander-to-phraseexpander/
Posted by jimspoon
Oct 15, 2013 at 07:34 PM
I got tired of PhaseExpress not working and having to restart it to get it to work, i.e. to insert the autotext when I typed in the appropriate abbreviation.
I have switched over to AutoHotKey for entering “hotstrings”. I keep my .ahk file in Dropbox so that my hotstrings are available on all my computers. I just learned the bare minimum to get it up and running Working very well for me.
p.s. a hotstring is inserted into the .ahk file just like this:
::oswc::outlinersoftware.com
Posted by Franz Grieser
Oct 15, 2013 at 08:12 PM
I also stopped using PhraseExpress: Too many strange encounters of the 3rd kind.
When this project is over, I will retry AutoHotkey, for the moment AutoCorrection in Word and Outlook suffice.
Franz
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 15, 2013 at 10:12 PM
jimspoon wrote:
>I have switched over to AutoHotKey for entering “hotstrings”. I keep my
>.ahk file in Dropbox so that my hotstrings are available on all my
>computers.
That sounds like an interesting solution. The thing is I really like the drop-down box approach (starting to type the actual word and then choosing from the list, rather than having to memorise shortcuts), and though apparently there is even a way to make it work on AutoHotkey, e.g.
http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/49517-typingaid-v219d-word-autocompletion-utility/
when I read the “known issues” and the comments, it just puts me off, as it sounds like there is a lot of extra fiddling involved. Hence my preference for a solution that works out of the box with minimal hassle…