TextExpander 2 saves me time in Mac OS X

I’ve been on a Getting Things Done (GTD) kick lately — trying to be more productive in my day to day work. Through a series of geeky software tools and by approaching things like email differently, I’m wasting less time than before and being more productive.

TextExpander 2 is a great utility that saves me from having to type repetitive key strokes. It will auto-correct my common spelling mistakes on the fly and by typing custom abbreviations, it will spit predefined words, phrases, paragraphs of text.

If I type ‘ddate’ then it inserts ‘October 19, 2007’. If I type ‘andthe’ then it knows that I meant to type ‘and the’ and corrects my spelling mistake.

If you’re a web developer, you’ll love TextExpander. It will generate code for you automatically by typing a simple abbreviations. As an added bonus, the software inserts the cursor wherever you specify.

TextExpander keeps track of the keystrokes that it saves you from typing and translates this into time saved. After a couple hours of use, it has saved me from typing 1,932 characters, approximately 4 minutes of time.

SpamSieve is another fabulous program that has paid for itself many times. Since I installed the software, it has blocked 70,386 spam messages. Every day it deletes around 106 spam messages from my inbox. That adds up to hours of mindless filtering and deleting of messages.

Some links:

SmileOnMyMac
TextExpander 2: .Mac syncing and much more
Newsletters that teach

Posted in OS X Software and Web Design at 12:53 AM