This post is deceptive. This is just an ad for a proprietary product that lets you define abbreviations system wide, with some story telling to make you like t

This post is deceptive. This is just an ad for a proprietary product that lets you define abbreviations system wide, with some story telling to make you like the author. I didn't realize it until the end. It contains no particular insight, no actual numbers about the time it lets you save are shared and it doesn't present what actual abbreviations you can use to help you type faster. Examples are bad and better covered by native features of your tools. I'm here for the curiosity, an ad can be fine but it'd better be very insightful. Here, it did the opposite of convincing me. The main example shows an abbreviation that expands to a full email. You wouldn't do that, your parents would hate you for always sending the exact same mail. And you can "edit as new" for this, any good email client lets you do this if you need something like this. And the three examples at the end are no better, being better covered by built-in features: - "/ur" to go to an archived version of Mac Donalds doesn't seem realistic. In any case, Firefox's bar is so efficient that you never need to abbreviate anything there. Type a few characters (or even one!) and relevant stuff from your history pop up. It can be parts of different words appearing in the URL or the page title. No effort is spent setting this up. If you do need a keyword shortcut, you can set it up, which is probably not harder than setting up an external tool, and it can be parameterized. - the "sign in" example is actually better covered by the "remember me" feature, password managers and the form autocomplete feature of browsers (at your choice). Again, the remember me and the autocomplete features require no set up effort. - if you need fast code editing, IDEs are incredibly efficient at constantly suggesting you the more relevant stuff as fast as possible thanks to LSP servers and equivalent things analyzing your code and its dependencies. There's no way manual abbreviation will work as good but in cases it would, many code editors let you define keywords that expand and code fragments / snippets that can be parameterized. They also let you define macros which can be a very efficient tool for text editing.