On Windows, better fit is Autohotkey and its hotstrings for people wanting to use this. It's much better for that as it supports full programming language so you could use function results and similar to produce abbreviations.
Show HN: I automated half of my typing
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Re: Show HN: I automated half of my typing
#72This is a very clever idea. However, I realize that I would never want to use something like this that would change over time. E.g. if I ran it every 6 months and last year "db" produced "debug", while this year it produces "database". Because talk about messing up my muscle memory and habits. And the language I write changes very much over time. So I'd actually be much more interested in a "universal" version of thi…
> However, I realize that I would never want to use something like this that would change over time. E.g. if I ran it every 6 months and last year "db" produced "debug", while this year it produces "database". Because talk about messing up my muscle memory and habits. And the language I write changes very much over time. > However, I realize that I would never want to use something like this that would change over ti…
> Sounds like exactly you want something that evolves after time, since how you write changes over time.
No, because I don't want the shortcuts to be changing on me. That would drive me nuts. The whole point for me would be to establish new habits and then keep them. To turn into muscle memory, not something to be thinking about.
It's like toolbars that "learn" which actions you're currently using the most, but the buttons are constantly moving around and are never where they were last week. It's an exercise in frustration.
Re: Show HN: I automated half of my typing
#73This is a very clever idea. However, I realize that I would never want to use something like this that would change over time. E.g. if I ran it every 6 months and last year "db" produced "debug", while this year it produces "database". Because talk about messing up my muscle memory and habits. And the language I write changes very much over time. So I'd actually be much more interested in a "universal" version of thi…
Is the universal version of this stenotype?
More or less, yeah.
There are different stenography systems, each with their own shortcuts and abbreviations, but at core they're all about producing large volumes of text with minimal physical effort at very high speeds.
Those interested should check out http://www.openstenoproject.org/.
A good mechanical keyboard (e.g. the ErgoDox EZ) and Plover mean the only thing standing between you and >200 WPM typing is the time and effort to learn it.
Re: Show HN: I automated half of my typing
#74I use a tool called "Espanso" to accomplish something similar at work. It only runs locally, so no weird data scraping issues to worry about. And it's easy to update as things changes because everything lives in a simple yml file.
It can do simple text replacement, so I have words, phrases, and sentences I use frequently compressed into a few keyboard clicks. It can also grab what is in your clipboard, so that can be incorporated into responses, which is simple but very handy.
A simple text replacement looks like this in the yml file: - trigger: ":espanso" replace: "Hi there!"
But it can even work with a shell, which I think is amazing! For example, I have a particular task at work where I often need to insert a random number into a text document. I can have Espano run PowerShell behind the scenes to run a simple PowerShell command, and that looks something like:
- trigger: ";rand"
replace: " {{output}}"
vars:
- name: output
type: shell
params:
cmd: "Get-Random -Minimum 100000"
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
> However, I realize that I would never want to use something like this that would change over time. E.g. if I ran it every 6 months and last year "db" produced "debug", while this year it produces "database". Because talk about messing up my muscle memory and habits. And the language I write changes very much over time. > However, I realize that I would never want to use something like this that would change over ti…
> Sounds like exactly you want something that evolves after time, since how you write changes over time. No, because I don't want the shortcuts to be changing on me. That would drive me nuts. The whole point for me would be to establish new habits and then keep them. To turn into muscle memory, not something to be thinking about. It's like toolbars that "learn" which actions you're currently using the most, but the b…
I think it's built and fixed until you decide to extend or modify it.
Re: Show HN: I automated half of my typing
#76I use a tool called "Espanso" to accomplish something similar at work. It only runs locally, so no weird data scraping issues to worry about. And it's easy to update as things changes because everything lives in a simple yml file. https://espanso.org/ It can do simple text replacement, so I have words, phrases, and sentences I use frequently compressed into a few keyboard clicks. It can also grab what is in your clip…
That is cool! I use Autokey under the hood, but I'll check out Espanso as well
Re: Show HN: I automated half of my typing
#77This is a very clever idea. However, I realize that I would never want to use something like this that would change over time. E.g. if I ran it every 6 months and last year "db" produced "debug", while this year it produces "database". Because talk about messing up my muscle memory and habits. And the language I write changes very much over time. So I'd actually be much more interested in a "universal" version of thi…
Yup, it doesn't run automatically for exactly this reason. It outputs "suggested_shortcuts.yaml" and I can copy and paste from that into "shortcuts.yaml" so I have manual control over which shortcuts are live :)
Re: Show HN: I automated half of my typing
#78I use a tool called "Espanso" to accomplish something similar at work. It only runs locally, so no weird data scraping issues to worry about. And it's easy to update as things changes because everything lives in a simple yml file. https://espanso.org/ It can do simple text replacement, so I have words, phrases, and sentences I use frequently compressed into a few keyboard clicks. It can also grab what is in your clip…
I love espanso. I live it over AHK as it doesn't have some obscure and hard to learn language, so I can just write some python scripts and trigger them with espanso.
Re: Show HN: I automated half of my typing
#79I use a tool called "Espanso" to accomplish something similar at work. It only runs locally, so no weird data scraping issues to worry about. And it's easy to update as things changes because everything lives in a simple yml file. https://espanso.org/ It can do simple text replacement, so I have words, phrases, and sentences I use frequently compressed into a few keyboard clicks. It can also grab what is in your clip…
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Re: Show HN: I automated half of my typing
#80On Windows, better fit is Autohotkey and its hotstrings for people wanting to use this. It's much better for that as it supports full programming language so you could use function results and similar to produce abbreviations. https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/v1/Hotstrings.htm
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