Show HN: I automated half of my typing

Post by indus » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 3:31 PM UTC

eschluntz wrote: post #237

paradite wrote: post #222

Here's something you probably didn't know if you are not native Chinese speaker: Chinese language has this feature "built-in". It is officially called 双拼 （Shuangpin）where you type two (English) characters of each word to type out the entire word: https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-sg/%E5%8F%8C%E6%8B%BC Even if you don't use Shuangpin officially, most Chinese input methods supports a similar feature (简拼) for popular phrases,…

Is XLB for Xiao long bao an example of this? Hadn't realized it was a wider system, that's cool!

Post by queuebert » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 3:37 PM UTC

habitue wrote: post #49

This seems like a really good way to make it so you have a hard time typing on anyone's computer but your own.

Post by danbarak » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 4:34 PM UTC

mikysco wrote: post #61

https://kapeli.com/dash Somewhat similar tool to Autokey for MacOS that I use as a text expander. Allows for great customization - appending ; to a phrase ensures you don't accidentally expand a keystroke into a phrase/URL/etc ";url" expands into "whatever string you configure"

Post by eschluntz » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 5:31 PM UTC

edanm wrote: post #244

This is really cool! I did something similar on Mac, but completely manually. I'm using Espanso now, but I suffix every shortcut with an ";" character which causes the expansion. Since it's home row, it's incredibly easy to actually type it right after typing some letters, making it ideal, cause then I can use whatever shortcuts I want and very rarely have collisions. I do think this automated generation of suggestio…

Post by brimwats » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 6:48 PM UTC

mackrevinack wrote: post #242

ThinkBeat wrote: post #109

I have spent a good deal of time trying to create text expansions for myself. (manually) It is a lot harder than I thought it would be. To find aliases that dont misfire too often and provide enough value. Give that I daily communicate in several languages that adds even more trouble. I have now split it by application. Different aliases for different applications. I still have misfires. Mostly I have found I need de…

maybe a sweet spot would be to use abbreviations for only the most common words and then have some sort of simple gui pop up where you can fuzzy search things and then have it pasted in