CopyPaste + yType: Text snippet nirvana?
Imagine a utility that bundles together the auto-expanding text
Like iClip or iSnip, it offers multiple
Like Textpander, this app offers predefined keyboard shortcuts for inserting blocks of frequently used text.
This makes working faster, of course, but also reduces the amount of errors in your typing. Further spelling errors are reduced by its ability to correct common spelling errors on the fly like Microsoft’s “
The clipboard,
MacAddict Magazine describes it as “the turbo clipboard utility on steriods”. I’ve only been playing with CopyPaste for thirty minutes, but I can already see how this is going to make working in
CopyPaste is shareware (USD 30) and is available from the developer’s web site. It offers a thirty day free trial period during which you could play around with it and see if the utility lives up to its promise. That’s what I will be doing.
Tags: Apple Mail, autocorrect, Clipboard, CopyPaste, snippet, textRelated posts
December 4th, 2005 at 8:45 am
[...] So I am very interested in anything that promises to make working with text in Mail.app and elsewhere easier and more efficient. I’ve blogged here before about snippet utilities like Textpander and CopyPaste, and apps that manipulate text more generally in useful ways like TextSoap. [...]