![]() Personally, BlogPress suddenly became 100% cooler than I thought it was, and I will become very attached to WriteRoom from here on in. It means that you can only use TextExpander in one or more of the apps that support TextExpander, c&p'ing your content to an unsupported app as required. ![]() I personally doubt that Apple built apps will ever support TextExpander unless Apple buys the company (but I'm not starting any rumors). This means it won't work in any of the "standard" iOS apps like Safari, Notes, Pages, SMS or Email. My biggest gripe with this arrangement is that although TextExpander is uber-cool, it will only work with apps that come pre-baked with TextExpander support. In this Smile blog post: More TextExpander Date and Time Formatting Options the creators of TextExpander write that it uses the Unicode Date Format Patterns, so go nuts and create your own! Abbreviation: dd2 content: %date:YYYYMMdd-HHmmss% sample output: 20110807-012007.Abbreviation: dd1 content: %date:EEEE d MMMM YYYY, hh:mm:ss a% sample output: Sunday 7 August 2011, 01:18:36 AM.Here are the mappings I have made for dates. Paste contents of the clipboard: %clipboard.He lists two of the most important snippet expansions, which I have copied below. Kevin Wolfe (that's Wolfe with an e) wrote the most useful review I have found for TextExpander: Review: iPad's TextExpander leaves you shorthanded (he is being ironic). So far, I am regularly using BlogPress for writing blog posts (such as this one) and WriteRoom for text notes sync'd with DropBox. The answer is TextExpander Touch - which gives you text based macros (called "snippets"), combined with the hopefully growing list of apps that support TextExpander. Today I worked out how to solve this - and so much more - on the iPad and iPhone. I have written before about how to insert dates into various windows applications and how this was solved instantly and globally and magically with Autohotkey.
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