Smile estimates that enterprise team members generally save 4 hours of time per month by using the service, and it’s not uncommon for active TextExpander users to save double that, or a full work day per month. The enterprise attractiveness of Smile’s TextExpander service was further enhanced by the successful introduction of TextExpander for Windows.Īll that is driven by the utility of TextExpander. Smile reports that a typical team is about 12 people, but it hosts teams that have nearly 1000 members. Such teams share common snippet libraries, turning the TextExpander service into something of a low-rent content management system through which, for example, all the members of a customer support team can have access to -hosted support documents and links literally at their fingertips.
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More interesting, and boding well for TextExpander’s future, is that the TextExpander service provides the management capabilities to build snippet-sharing teams in businesses and organizations. The regularly updated TextExpander Blog provides users with tips and information about new shared groups. For TextExpander users who are not part of a team or organization, currently offers almost thirty shared snippet groups, including text shortcuts for the names and birthdates of Renaissance composers, for Apple trademarks, for Keyboard Maestro clipboard history scripts, and for accessing parts of a self-hosted WordPress site. Shared snippets have also begun to blossom. And the promised frequent app updates have come: Smile delivered 17 updates to the macOS app last year compared to only 7 the year before. According to Smile, about a third of the TextExpander customer base has moved to the subscription service, which gives Smile the income to pay for continued app updates and to keep the lights on in the server room. Were there enough people willing to sign up for the plan? Was there really a demand for shared typing shortcuts?Īs it turns out, there were and there was. At the time, I thought that Smile had put itself into an awkward position: in order to defray the costs of running the TextExpander cloud service the company had to charge a subscription fee, but all Smile could offer customers at the service’s introduction was the promise of more frequent app updates and vague hints of new capabilities.
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Full disclosure: Smile isĪ longtime TidBITS sponsor, and I have written books about both previous versions of TextExpander and Smile’s PDFpen.Īlthough I had worked closely with Smile while writing about TextExpander and PDFpen, I was as surprised as anyone when I heard about the subscription model and the tethering of TextExpander to a cloud-served snippet library. The mandatory subscription model provoked cries of dismay among many users, and within days, Smile had responded as we described in “ Smile Brings Back Standalone TextExpander, Reduces Subscription Price ” (13 April 2016). #1617: Pages regains mail merge, HomeKit sensor improvements, keyboard flags in MontereyĪs I write this, it has been one year since Smile introduced TextExpander 6 for Mac and TextExpander 4 for iPhone and iPad, along with the bombshell news that the new versions would be free but require a paid subscription at (see “ TextExpander 6 Adds Teams and Subscription Billing,” 6 April 2016).Preview selections, portable power for a MacBook Pro #1618: M2 MacBook Air available to order, Lockdown Mode, Live Text vs.#1619: Stage Manager first impressions, Live Text in Preview redux, SMS 2FA failure fix, moving large folders with ChronoSync.#1620: OS updates, AssistiveTouch for iOS shortcut palette, Photos album sharing bug.#1621: Apple Q3 2022 financials, Slack's new free plan restrictions, which OS features do you use?.If you run into trouble, please let our support team know. Once you restart TextExpander you may be asked to add TextExpander Helper to Accessibility if that happens, please go ahead and add it back.įollow these steps and you should be back to normal. Add TextExpander back to the list using the “+” plus button at the bottom, then restart your Mac.It was a part of older versions of TextExpander – if it’s not there, don’t worry.)
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(NOTE: if you don’t see TextExpander Helper, that’s okay. You may need to Unlock the options on the lower left first with your Mac user account login.
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There is a simple adjustment you need to make in the Accessibility pane of System Preferences to get you expanding again. If you’ve upgraded your Mac to macOS 10.15 (Catalina) or later, you may have found your snippets aren’t expanding.