Is it possible to alter built-in autocorrect (e.g. in firefox) to prioritize a list of words/phrases? I feel like remembering a bunch of shortcuts is not ideal.
Show HN: I automated half of my typing
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#182First, I have to make a personal confession — I never liked the SMS short-hand thingy that worked with pre-iPhone phones. That was one of the reason I seldom use SMS/Text-Messages unless I really need to.
I have been using text-expansion since the early days of TextExpander[1], an app that works on iOS and macOS. However good the iPhone keyboard was, it was always not convenient to type and retype details such as home address, home/work map, and many other work/personal related info. TextExpander helped a lot.
I started looking for an alternative when TextExpander converted to a subscription model, which I (personal) believe is not suitable for such a tool. I found a better alternative in Alfred[2], bundled with its Powerpack — Snippets.
macOS/iOS also has its built-in “Text Replacements” but it fails me quite often in non-Apple apps. What you have here is similar to that of Apple’s Text Replacement. I let that remain and the others are managed via Alfred. Honestly, I may move to this once I can totally walk out of Alfred (Spotlight is becoming good enough.)
However, I’d like to use a delimiter to expand so it does not come in the way of my normal typing (I can touch type). Currently, I use “,” (comma) as a delimiter (Affix) because, in English, there is always a space after a comma and my expansion is only after I type a comma and the short-text without a space. Also the comma key is located conveniently when you touch type.
If I do reconcile and stay with the OS’s Text Replacement, I might still introduce the delimiter to prevent automatic expansion of the word which wasn’t intended for that particular scenario.
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#183This would probably drive me up the wall. I like the idea of snippets, but not automatically changing st -> something, hw -> hardware, etc. I type in 2-3 different languages on a regular basis (English and Dutch mainly). There are certain idiosyncrasies in both languages that would drive me up the wall with a system like this.
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#184While this is a cool idea, is typing speed really the bottleneck for anyone who uses a keyboard for a living?
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#185While this is a cool idea, is typing speed really the bottleneck for anyone who uses a keyboard for a living?
At this point, my keyboard is the bottleneck. I regularly type 100-120wpm and can hit 150-180 peak.
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#186This seems like a really good way to make it so you have a hard time typing on anyone's computer but your own.
I use a trackball and find it makes me more productive and causes less strain Most other people use a normal mouse Since I also have a lot of muscle memory using normal mice, I am able to quickly adjust to working on a new PC Others struggle when they have to take over my PC and show me something by navigating with my trackball I am guessing this might be similar -- since OP does have years or muscle memory with norm…
I wish decent trackballs were more common. At this point, a good one would run me 100+ euros where I am.
I use a 50 euro Razer Naga X mice at the moment which is nice (with the extra buttons).
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#187My friend does this on dating apps, he aliased a bunch of typos in his iphone with paragraphs of progressive sounding text that many women want to hear, interlaced with lots of flirty emojis branches of conversation too, one step above botting works for what he’s looking for
Huh, have to say that strikes me as kind of sleezy. It seems disingenuius and shallow. Like, instead of having meaningful conversation with people, relating to them on a substantive level (if possible), he’s just mindlessly automating his way through women “telling them things they want to hear”, hoping to get laid, using macros from his phone. That gives off major creep energy, and this is coming from another guy.
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#188This is great. Is it possible to somehow use it with keyd, as I don't use autohotkey?
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#189Cool, thinking how can use it in programming, or other conditions?
Text expanders are good for this. You can have it as basic as "ty > thank you" up to templates which will ask for input, optional sections in templates, templates in templates, running scripts, and so on.
Very useful in eg. customer service when you want to reply to someone with links and whatnot. Giving instructions, etc.
For programming you can build up a library of common things, think ";;p -> print("\($place_cursor_here)"). Or whole classes, anything you can think of, really.
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#190This is cool but I see so many posts in HN about “hacks” that increase productivity/save time that it makes me anxious. I don’t know if it’s our field or just life these days but I would really love a more relaxed approach to work (or life in general?). It feels like I’m in a race and struggling to keep up with the pack.
You can relax more by spending less time doing tedious repetitive work like typing