A Ghost Bullet is basically a parent node without a title (or just 3 suspensive points), under which I nest any material I’d like to expand on at a later stage. One solution I’ve made part of my workflow is to set up a “Ghost Bullet” (one of the many writing tips I deal with in my book). Only thing is, a string of trailing bullet points did not give me zen-like feelings. Somewhere, anywhere away from where the writing zone was. I used to furiously hit Enter half a dozen times to push that material further down the screen and out of my field of focus. I suspect this might be one of your pet peeves too: (before) when I used to write in WorkFlowy, I almost always had a trailing list of ideas below my writing space – sometimes the product of brainstorming, sometimes outlines pulled in from my “Backlogged” section or even just thoughts bombarding me at the time that I had to jot down. Of course, you do know that zooming into a bullet brings clarity and focus… But what if your workflow calls on you to transfer information from one part of your outline to another quite frequently? If you’re a writer of some shape or flavor (and especially if you’re a translator) I’ve got some WorkFlowy tips that will create that much more focus right there in the thick of your workflow. Actually what happens when I type a company shortcut is that I get a shortcode which, when entered into my company’s publishing system, produces the company’s full, formal name, with a link to the website and - in the case of publicly traded companies - its stock ticker symbol.Focus doubles your effort and saves you time… and time might equate to money. And having to append a space at the end of the shortcut screws up that system.Īnd I oversimplified above. In practice, when it’s time to mention a company name for the first time in an article, I type cq and then start typing the company name until the full, proper name appears.
(Is there even a company called “Minisoft”? Whatever.) Thus, if I encounter another company with a name starting in “mi” - say, “Minisoft” - then the Microsoft shortcut would become cqmic and Minisoft becomes cqmin. When I run into a conflict when creating a new one, I edit the old one to add more letters until it becomes unique. Thus, tqli results in cqmi results in “Microsoft Corp.,” and so on. That’s followed by a q, then followed by the first few letters of the shortcut. Primarily that’s “t” for twitter handle, “c” for company name. My system is to start a shortcut with a letter indicating what kind of text string follows. The solution for me has been to use Drafts for most all of my writing for emails. The one big one that does not work is Mail. Most my use cases for text expansion on iOS are with apps that work with Text Expander. Plus, I got in early with Text Expander so I have the discounted subscription. I still have 7 months left on my Text Expander subscription so I am just going to continue with that for now.
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So now my Mac and iOS substitutions are out of sync - which was the whole point in the first place.įrustrating to say the least. My iPad and iPhone still have the new text snippets I added. So I lost all my new snippets on the Mac.
For some reason, when I updated, my text snippets list on my Mac reverted back a list I had about 3 months ago. The second issue that I came across was when I updated to Mojave. I prefer how Text Expander automatically expands with the keystrokes and you don’t need to hit the space bar. The first issue is having to hit the space bar after the abbreviation to make it expand. I think I am going back to Text Expander. My wife likes it for what turns out to be good and interesting technological reasons. But for us moving into a new house it doesn’t make sense to have it switched ON.”Īnd 10 years later I’ve stopped using the landline. It doesn’t make sense to switch of the landline and go to the bother of changing your number for everyone. You’ve been living in that house for years. I feel old now.” He said, “Don’t feel old. This was the New Hot Thing, and I said to him, “We still have our landline. A friend who is 10 years older than me moved in to a new house and said he and his wife were not having a landline installed. Reminds me of something that happened 10 or so years ago. Because if someone were thinking about starting to use TE today, I’d ask them what they need that they can’t just do with Mac/iOS built-in tools. I can afford that.īut now I see why TextExpander ads keep focusing on the business collaboration uses. I have come to no real conclusion either, other than that it seems like it’s easier to keep using TextExpander – keep doing what I have been doing – and for $3+/mo.
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