The Text Shortcut Trick Hiding in Your Phone and Laptop That Saves You From Typing the Same Thing Twice
Photo by https://kaboompics.com/ on Pexels You've typed your own email address a thousand times this year Think about how many times a day you type things you've already typed before. Your email address. Your home address for online orders. "Thanks for reaching out, let me get back to you by end of day." A closing line for work messages. None of that is new information — you're just re-typing the same string of characters over and over because that's how typing works. Except it doesn't have to be how typing works. Both iOS/Android and Mac/Windows have a text replacement feature built in, sitting there unused, that lets you type three or four letters and have it expand into a full sentence, address, or signature. I've written before about how your clipboard only remembers one thing and how much friction that causes — this is the same category of problem. Small, repetitive typing tasks add up to real time, and there's already a free tool si...