Text Expander

[RWells]

Is anyone using some type of text expander to fill in the blanks for a source template? If so what program? I am trying to use typeit4me with not much good success. It works sometimes and not others.

[Tom Brown]

I have been using Typinator for several years now and am very happy with the program.

[Bob White]

Remembering a bunch of letter schemes just doesn't work for me. I have a different approach. I use a clip manager named iClip (https://iclipapp.com). One can set up as many sets of clips as they want. So I have several sets. When doing genealogy, I switch to the genealogy set and can insert that clip by clicking on its arrow icon. There are a number of clip manager apps out there that could be used like this.

[Reiner L. Sauer]

Yes, I'm using Textexpander for quite a while in Reunion. I use it for a couple of different purposes:
1) to fill in Reunion sources templates with repetitive information about archives, publishers etc. I'm using the pop-up menu feature in Textexpander for fill-ins
2) to fill in fact-fields with repetitive long information about universities, schools or societies e.g. "Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany"
3) when doing German language localization for Reunion, I use Textexpander to translate/populate resource-fields across various res-fields with the same information. This is to ensure consistency in translation, spelling and typing across many different res-fields.
Hope this helps.
Reiner

[Tom Robinson]

There's a capability built into every Mac (which also syncs to iDevices): System Preferences > Keyboard > Text. I use 'dot' shortcuts, e.g. if I type .12 it's converted to ½.