One of the things that most helps me to move quickly and efficiently through my email messages is the text snippet manager TextExpander which handles all my signatures, pre-formatted replies, reply templates, impossibly long and complicated names, frequently-needed URLs and so on and so on.

SmileOnMyMac, the app’s developer, has just released a list of over 100 snippets for common typos. When imported into the app, these work as “auto-corrections”, replacing words you might mistype.

Download the free file from SmileOnMyMac and install it with the “Use additional snippets from:” option in TextExpander’s preferences pane.

If you make mistakes when typing (like me) but don’t want to part with the cash for a dedicated on-the-fly spelling corrector like Spell Catcher X (unlike me), this list will save you time and energy. mail.app, apple mail, snippet manager, shortcuts, productivity, textexpander, autocorrect, PEBKAC

Imagine a utility that bundles together the auto-expanding text snippet features of Textpander and the multiple clipboard functions of iClip.

CopyPaste + yType is it.

Like iClip or iSnip, it offers multiple clipboards and adds access through the contextual menu to make insertion even easier. It can also automatically record the history of the things that you have copied.

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 “autocorrect feature”.

The clipboard, text snippet features and preferences are all accessible through an icon in the Statusbar.

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 Apple Mail (and with text more generally) faster, more error-free and easier on the fingers.

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.