I've been using Typinator and singing its praises to people for years. I have some abbreviations I only use once in a blue moon, but there are a couple I've got

I've been using Typinator and singing its praises to people for years. I have some abbreviations I only use once in a blue moon, but there are a couple I've gotten miles and miles of use out of. I started by picking a 'shortcut tag'--a single character that prefixes all my shortcuts that aren't typo replacements. This prevents issues like having a shortcut trigger in the middle of writing a command or a piece of code. These days I use ';' and then follow the trigger with a space (e.g. ';dt ' is the full shortcut), as that doesn't come up in normal writing. (Annoyingly, the default substitutions in Mac OS/iOS don't respect these--if you create a trigger named ';dt ', it's going to try and trigger every time you write 'dt', with or without the semicolon and space. Probably because it's tied to the Autocorrect engine, which is very aggressive.) Couple I've found particularly handy: ;dt -> Prints the date as 2021-Mar-19 (very useful for quick-naming backup files!) ;DT -> Prints the date as 19 March, 2021 for more formal writing ;chr -> Prints "Cheers, <name>" as a quick way to sign an email ;fullstack -> Prints the subCA and root CA certificates in PEM format for the CA we usually use ;rarr -> Prints the "→" character, which is handy for nice lists. :) I also take advantage of Typinator's variable system. So I can enter ';ldif ' and it will prompt me for a user's name and UID values, then construct an LDIF file for use in adding them to LDAP. I have a couple boilerplate email responses in there as well that will just blow out the standard response with spots to fill in the user's name, for those "did you turn it off and on again" emails you write 50-odd times a day.