Typinator
Have you ever experienced the tedium and frustration of having to repeatedly type your name, e-mail address, home page url, and other words or phrases again, again and again? Or do you frequently need to quickly insert images like your signature, location plan, or company logo into documents? Do you often introduce errors when retyping standard business text?
Typinator boosts your productivity and eliminates errors by automating the process of inserting frequently used text and graphics.
Configuration is easy - You just define abbreviations and their replacement text or picture.
Usage is even easier - Whenever you type one of these abbreviations in an arbitrary application, Typinator inserts the corresponding replacement.
Save your time and annoyance and let Typinator type repeating texts and pictures for you.
You can use Typinator to...
quickly type greeting phrases,
set up a list of standard text fragments to be used in e-mail replies,
insert the current date and/or time in arbitrary formats with a few keystrokes,
Auto-correct your most frequent typos in all applications system-wide,
"type" pictures, such as smilies or bullets,
insert Unicode symbols by typing a few special regular characters (e.g., type "->" to insert an arrow symbol),
define shorthands for frequently used Unix commands,
quickly create templates for code fragments, if you are a programmer, and more
Tags: automation , boilerplate , utility
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7 Opinions:
I tried TextExpander and TypeIt4Me (which I actually purchased) and Typinator wipes the floor with them. It expands fast in all apps I've tried (unlike TypeIt4Me), it has lots of options as to expansion (i.e., per-abbreviation space options), and the full size interface is much more useable than the prefpanes of the other two. It also has nice per-app and per-abbreviation exclusion capabilities. My only gripe is that it's a bit of a pain to create new abbreviations because there is no shortcut for it, but I can live with that.
Great little app.
Just got Typinator as part of the MacUpdate Bundle Deal. I can already see this is going to be a great surprise. Looks like my money was well spent.
I run 3.0 and I cant do without it, works in all iWork apps on my machine.
I purchased Typinator when it was featured on MacZOT! I don't understand why it [version 2.0, at least] is not as popular as Textpander.
"It does what it says on the tin."
Typinator does everything I thought it would do, and does it well. Most of my comments on this site refer to programs I really like and how they "just work." This is another such comment about another such program.
I have a few handy abbreviations set up, and they were why I purchased the program but, through use, I've come to realise I most value the auto-correct feature. My common typos, the ones I make through inattention or exhaustion, are corrected immediately regardless of whether I'm e-mailing or replying to an instant message.
It makes me look better than I really am. More programs should do that! :-)
RapidoWrite may be nice, but if you look at their list of unsupported apps it says that they don't support MS Office, Pages, or Firefox (and potentially by extension, other apps which use the Gekko engine, even Camino, even though that's Cocoa-based). That's a huge deal-breaker for me, since I spend most of my typing time in those apps.
What puzzles me is why Pages isn't supported, even though it's Cocoa-based and hence should work with the InputManager-based approach that RapidoWrite takes to do what it does.
Version 2.0 now uses "sets" (=folders) for different abbreviation types.
Rapidowrite is free! good alternative http://osx.iusethis.com/app/rapidowrite