![]() Exporting your bookmarks from TextExpander Maybe the docs will be in LaunchBar 7? In the meantime, time to actually read that copy of Take Control of LaunchBar. Most of the information found there is still valid for LaunchBar 6. In the meantime you might take a look at the Help of LaunchBar 5. The Help for LaunchBar 6 is already in the works and will be available soon. If you followed the link to its snippet documentation you’ll perhaps notice the old-style LaunchBar interface. I do have one major criticism of LaunchBar though. Anything I keep around will find a new home in Keyboard Maestro or FastScripts.Īs with Keyboard Maestro, the snippet dates are formatted with Unicode patterns rather than strftime - which is a bit uncomfortable for me but never mind. The placeholders are more limited than in TextExpander, which is fine, and snippets are plain-text only, which is again fine as I had very few script snippets and fewer that I used. Honestly I was a bit dismissive when snippets appeared in LaunchBar (“Why wouldn’t you just use TextExpander?”) but as a long-standing LaunchBar user they slot into my workflow seamlessly. They can be created too by sending items to the Add Snippet action. The snippets are just text files on disk, and so can be deleted or renamed directly from LaunchBar like any other file. LaunchBar is a good fit because I use it everywhere, all the time. It’s not a matter of whether I should switch but what to. Sooner or later it’s going to stop working. Well, the overriding reason is still that TextExpander 5 is done. And because snippets are part of LaunchBar there are some restrictions in using them with LaunchBar. It’s a similar advantage to when I moved my Safari bookmarklets to LaunchBar: if I forget the shortcut I can just type what I want.īut so far this is just like TextExpander’s own inline search. Setting a keyboard shortcut for snippets and enabling “sub-search only” means that they’re not cluttering up your usual results either: they’re available when I type ⌃⌥⌘Space but otherwise out the way. Instead I settled on using LaunchBar’s snippets, which you search in exactly the same way that you search the main LaunchBar catalogue. I am bad at using TextExpander and I feel bad.īecause of this, I didn’t really want to switch snippets to Keyboard Maestro or one of the TextExpander-alikes. And then I forgot the shortcut for that and would periodically open the menubar - where of course the shortcut for inline search is not listed - and get frustrated each time. Then we’re back to the snippet reminder again the next time I do type the phrase.įor a while I was using the inline search, which is really good. That’s not necessarily helped by TextExpander encouraging me to create snippets for things that I type frequently for a short amount of time, only to then not type the phrase and forget the snippet exists entirely. I am not good at remembering snippet abbreviations. I get the snippet reminder notification all the time, to the point where it’s frustrating. I barely use the features of TextExpander 5, rarely create new snippets, and generally am bad at using it. There isn’t anything in the subscription version for me. Well, that, or it’s actually sensible to think about switching away from TextExpander the last update to the non-subscription version (5.1.4) was on February 21 2016. I’m a bit behind.Īnd since everything on here is effectively hero-worship to Dr Drang, it’s time to catch up. This makes complete sense, since there’s no way for the perspective to know which project I want my new action to be in.Catching up on my RSS feeds, I’ve just been through Dr Drang’s posts from nearly a year ago about switching away from TextExpander ( 1, 2, 3, 4). If I come up with a new action, I can’t simply add it to the perspective. I do love coming up with new Keyboard Maestro macros though )Ĭustom perspectives are nice and I do use them frequently, but unless I’m missing something, they’re only really useful for doing actual work. I might look into some of your suggestions, but as it stands, typing in a few extra characters is probably faster than coming up with my own system. I’m sure it would be some work on Omni’s part to get the functionality to be as smooth as LaunchBar’s, but if they could pull it off, I think most users wouldn’t even notice it they’d just feel like Open With automagically read their minds. The next most frequent after that, and so on until it starts listing everything else. ![]() After using the shortcut a few times, if I keep choosing the same item, it drifts to the top of the list. I simply use my shortcut and it remembers what I’ve chosen. ![]() All of this is done seamlessly without thinking about it. ![]() Nothing in LaunchBar is hard coded, it simply learns how you work. I can see your trepidation, but if Quick Open worked similar to LaunchBar, I really don’t think it would affect your work flow. ![]()
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