dw expansion (e.g., Thu) so that expansion is called from this expansion. This part of the snippet creates a dialog to prompt for name of the current daily note, which happens to be the same as the date generated by my. daily which generates the beginning content for my Obsidian daily note:. (I won’t be prescriptive about this just descriptive.)įor example this Typinator expansion. Here’s why I think Typinator in many of my personal use cases is a better choice for me. I find it in many ways more powerful than Keyboard Maestro. Nominations for February 2022 Software of the Month Club (nominations closed for February) For “expansion” macros that incorporate either input dialogs or code snippets (Applescript or other), or both, it is really easy to create these in Typinator.In 10 years I have never experienced a Typinator crash. (Not disparaging KM - on the whole it is vastly more feature rich than Typinator - I’m just focusing here on the case where Typinator and KM have overlapping function.) It’s a lot less fussy than Keyboard Maestro. The Typinator control window is compact but full of robust features.Never say never, but I like that sure focus on the platform I use the most. It’s Mac-only - seems like an odd reason to prefer, but I’ve see the developer, Ergonis, state that macOS is their only platform and will not develop for iOS.Whole word and case sensitive expansion.Insert arbitrary keystrokes in expansions.Set the cursor position within the expanded tex t.Powerful predefined sets: Autocorrection for English, German, and French, DOuble CApitals correction, Auto-Capitalize Sentences, Inline Calculation, Clipboard conversion, Subscripts, Superscript, HTML snippets with over 100 abbreviations for elements of the HTML standard, and more.Integration with PopChar lets you easily find and insert arbitrary Unicode characters.Interactive forms with various types of input fields.Simple to use - just type your abbreviation and Typinator will expand it.Easy to configure - simply define your abbreviations, expansions, and boilerplates in a list.Here are Typinator’s features (from the product link, above): Typinator, TextExpander, KM and aText share a core feature set, and then each have features that do not overlap with the others.

I’ve used all the products listed above, apart from Espanso, and other than the Apple text-expansion features the modern versions provide a bundle of services. I think putting these products into a single category, text-expansion, might have been accurate a number of years ago but that description in most cases is too limiting. I suggest this thread would focus on Typinator as the “February 2022 Software of the Month” topic, but because the are lots of other options in the “text-expansion” category, then please add your thoughts about TextExpander, Espanso, aText, Keyboard Maestro, and the expansion features Apple provides in macOS / iOS / iPadOS.

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