4 ms·
I have spent a good deal of time trying to create text expansions for myself. (manually) It is a lot harder than I thought it would be. To find aliases that d
by ThinkBeat 3y ago
I have spent a good deal of time trying to create text expansions for myself.
(manually)
It is a lot harder than I thought it would be.
To find aliases that dont misfire too often and provide enough value.
Give that I daily communicate in several languages that adds even more
trouble.
I have now split it by application.
Different aliases for different applications.
I still have misfires.
Mostly I have found I need delinators.
- LanternLight83 3y agoIkclaks has been doing something interesting on top of their magic sturdy keyboard layout layout https://github.com/Ikcelaks/keyboard_layouts/blob/main/magic_sturdy/magic_sturdy.md https://github.com/Ikcelaks/keyboard_layouts/blob/main/magic...
- dr_kiszonka 3y agoI prefix my aliases with letter combinations that are unlikely to appear as first letters of words and variable names like kk, zz, qq. For example, qqme is my email signature. I wish OP's tool suggested aliases for longer phrases than what I saw in the readme. I heard TextExpander for MacOs does that but I am not a Mac user.
- eschluntz 3y agoooh yeah, with multiple languages I bet there are WAY fewer available shortcuts. one of my TODOs is to use the actual corpus of text I analyze to also generate the "blacklist" of aliases to avoid
- mackrevinack 3y agomaybe a sweet spot would be to use abbreviations for only the most common words and then have some sort of simple gui pop up where you can fuzzy search things and then have it pasted in
- brimwats 3y agoespanso does that quite well