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I discussed our dynamic features a bit in an earlier comment, but I want to highlight what a Chrome focused extension offers over a system wide app. As a Chrom
by scottfr 6y ago
I discussed our dynamic features a bit in an earlier comment, but I want to highlight what a Chrome focused extension offers over a system wide app.
As a Chrome extension, Text Blaze can use the contents of the webpage you are on in your snippet.
For example, if you replied to an email in Gmail, the following Text Blaze snippet would pull in the name of the person you were replying to automatically (the bit after the `selector=` is a CSS selector):
```
Hello {site: text; selector=.h7:last-child .gD},
...
```
CSS selectors are much too technical for most users and this one in particular is quite ugly, but we are planning on developing higher-level functionality to make this much more accessible in the future.
- jnsie 6y agoAppreciate the response! I think you should hammer this home on your homepage. There are a bunch of text expansion apps out there but I'm unaware of any that can do _this_. On a side note, a few images weren't loading when I opened your homepage in Safari just now.
- scottfr 6y agoAgreed! Once we have the higher-level functionality for this in place it's something we'll really focus on as it's a killer feature. For now though it's too technical for most users (outside HN of course) so it's not something we focus on. Thanks for flagging the Safari issue, we'll look into it.
- FabianBeiner 6y agoI agree. I just wanted to post "Why would I not use https://github.com/federico-terzi/espanso https://github.com/federico-terzi/espanso instead?", but that Selector thingy is a really nice idea.
- mguerville 6y agoAgreed, I use the snippet function of Alfred after I tried textblaze but now that I know of dynamic snippets I’m really curious to give it a second look.