In the meantime you might take a look at the Help of LaunchBar 5. The Help for LaunchBar 6 is already in the works and will be available soon. If you followed the link to its snippet documentation you’ll perhaps notice the old-style LaunchBar interface. I do have one major criticism of LaunchBar though. Anything I keep around will find a new home in Keyboard Maestro or FastScripts.Īs with Keyboard Maestro, the snippet dates are formatted with Unicode patterns rather than strftime - which is a bit uncomfortable for me but never mind. The placeholders are more limited than in TextExpander, which is fine, and snippets are plain-text only, which is again fine as I had very few script snippets and fewer that I used. Honestly I was a bit dismissive when snippets appeared in LaunchBar (“Why wouldn’t you just use TextExpander?”) but as a long-standing LaunchBar user they slot into my workflow seamlessly. They can be created too by sending items to the Add Snippet action. The snippets are just text files on disk, and so can be deleted or renamed directly from LaunchBar like any other file. LaunchBar is a good fit because I use it everywhere, all the time. It’s not a matter of whether I should switch but what to. Sooner or later it’s going to stop working. Well, the overriding reason is still that TextExpander 5 is done. And because snippets are part of LaunchBar there are some restrictions in using them with LaunchBar. It’s a similar advantage to when I moved my Safari bookmarklets to LaunchBar: if I forget the shortcut I can just type what I want.īut so far this is just like TextExpander’s own inline search.
Setting a keyboard shortcut for snippets and enabling “sub-search only” means that they’re not cluttering up your usual results either: they’re available when I type ⌃⌥⌘Space but otherwise out the way. Instead I settled on using LaunchBar’s snippets, which you search in exactly the same way that you search the main LaunchBar catalogue. I am bad at using TextExpander and I feel bad.īecause of this, I didn’t really want to switch snippets to Keyboard Maestro or one of the TextExpander-alikes. And then I forgot the shortcut for that and would periodically open the menubar - where of course the shortcut for inline search is not listed - and get frustrated each time. Then we’re back to the snippet reminder again the next time I do type the phrase.įor a while I was using the inline search, which is really good. That’s not necessarily helped by TextExpander encouraging me to create snippets for things that I type frequently for a short amount of time, only to then not type the phrase and forget the snippet exists entirely. I am not good at remembering snippet abbreviations. I get the snippet reminder notification all the time, to the point where it’s frustrating.
I barely use the features of TextExpander 5, rarely create new snippets, and generally am bad at using it. There isn’t anything in the subscription version for me.
Keyboard maestro load at startup update#
Well, that, or it’s actually sensible to think about switching away from TextExpander the last update to the non-subscription version (5.1.4) was on February 21 2016. I’m a bit behind.Īnd since everything on here is effectively hero-worship to Dr Drang, it’s time to catch up.
Catching up on my RSS feeds, I’ve just been through Dr Drang’s posts from nearly a year ago about switching away from TextExpander ( 1, 2, 3, 4).
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