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An essential writing productivity tool is the capability to quickly enter information (mostly text) by using expandable keywords so you don’t have to retype or re-enter information. Text expansion capabilities exist in various applications like Pages and Textmate but there is a real advantage in having these capabilities system wide with all your applications. To do this on the Mac I use Textexpander<\/a> and it is so useful once you have included it into your workflow that you never want to be without it.<\/p>\n

To make all the information snippets available across all your computers requires a syncing solution. Textexpander supports Mobileme syncing but I have found Mobileme to be unreliable. A solution using Dropbox<\/a> has worked for me. The 5 steps to Textexpander Syncing Nirvana pdf<\/a> provides step by step instructions on how to setup the symbolic links to sync Textexpander preference files.<\/p>\n

Probably something similar could be established for Launchbar<\/a> which also uses text strings but in this case to launch applications, documents, search the Internet, and do all sorts of read-my-mind magic.<\/p>\n

For Windows users, autohotkey<\/a>, texter<\/a>, and Launchy<\/a> are alternatives which can be synced using the Windows version of Dropbox but there is no cross platform compatibility for these text utilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An essential writing productivity tool is the capability to quickly enter information (mostly text) by using expandable keywords so you don’t have to retype or re-enter information. Text expansion capabilities exist in various applications like Pages and Textmate but there is a real advantage in having these capabilities system wide with all your applications. 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