Textpander your sigs in Mail.app for speed and reach
Bob Monsour has discovered 
that signatures go better with Textpander.
Textpander is an app that saves time and effort by storing frequently typed text (or snippets), which you can then insert as you type with a user-defined abbreviation.
Bob tried Apple’s built-in signature feature, but “found it dreadful as the signature seleciton is “out of the way” of my focus when typing and requires selection from a drop-down menu.”
Using Textpander for signatures was the answer.
I use Textpander for signatures too. I find it the most elegant solution, especially if you run multiple aliases on the one account and have to manually select the sig you want from the drop-down menu. Textpander is faster and more efficient.
I also find more and more that I am wanting my sigs outside of Apple Mail in email forms, forum posts, webmail interfaces, in Entourage and so on. With Textpander the signatures are at my fingers tips whether I am in Mail.app or not.
Of course, Textpander does much more than this. Get it from Peter Maurer’s web site and start exploring all the efficiency it offers.
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May 2nd, 2006 at 12:07 am
Textpander is a nown. The corresponding verb is “to textpand”. So this article should be titled: “Textpand your sigs in Mail.app for speed and reach”.
Just kidding ;-) Thanks for the plug!
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:10 am
Oops. “nown” -> “noun”. Too much coffee.
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:19 am
Echt! Es ist ja unentbehrlich, daß Ich so was (oder vielleicht ’sowas’?) auf meinem eigenen Blog lesen muss!
;-)
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:18 am
Thanks for the pointer. I was searching for something like this for reports I write. I doubt I would’ve ever put two and two together for use on a sig.
The “out of focus” description is spot-on.