![]() ![]() When I want to expand text snippets it is certain that I’m inside of an text editor and that I’m in writing mode. What bugged me was that I couldn’t use string triggers for calling up a palette. It is a fact that one already saves a lot of brain real estate for remembering hot keys since all there is to do is type one shortcut to bring up a palette which then again tells the user which letters or numbers he assigned to the actions that he put in the palette in question (e.g. I continued creating palettes until I reached a point where I simply failed to retain the dozen shortcuts I assigned and which I needed to call them up. This also meant more hot keys to remember. Why palettes and why text string triggers?Īs I started building up my macro palettes for text expansion I noticed that I quickly ended up with more and more palettes. This means I don’t have to remember countless hot key combinations, but get the chance to build sets of logically related groups Keyboard Maestro brings the advantage of palettes to the table. ![]() – I always had trouble remembering those. His article about using 2x SPACE as a suffix for string triggers initiated the spark and finally I could dismiss prefixes like. ![]() Kaushik Gopal’s was the main reason why I finally started using Keyboard Maestro as a serious replacement for TextExpander.Here are my two main reasons why this is the case: In the meantime a major part of my TextExpander snippets live in Keyboard Maestro. ![]()
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