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Yes, you need 15 standalone license (All Visual Studio subscriptions and Visual Studio Professional are licensed on a per-user basis. So you could set up a text expansion that could insert the present date and time based on your configuration. Basically the dynamic placeholders can paste data that might change each time they are used. I haven’t explored placeholders enough to use them.

Lastly, Alfred also has Dynamic Placeholders. But if you’re not already using a text expansion application, you might give Alfred’s Auto Expansion feature a try. In contrast, TextExpander allows for doing a similar setup in a small pop-up window. You basically have to open Alfred and manually set up an auto expansion. Setting up expansions in Alfred takes more steps than it does in TextExpander. I don’t really use the Alfred Auto Expansion feature, mainly because I already have over a thousand text expansions in TextExpander. In the example below, the keyword “wbt” gets replaced by the assigned url.

Like using TextExpander ( reviewed here) or TypeIt4Me, you can use assigned short combinations of letters that automatically get replaced by the assigned snippet of text. The All Snippets collection appears at the top of the list, and when I hit the Return key it will reveal my Snippet Collections.Īlfred could very well be used as a text expansion application. To view my Snippet Collection, I type the same string trigger I use for opening the Alfred’s Clipboard History. You can quickly search for your collections of save snippets in Alfred. If you know specifically what you’re looking for, you simply type parts of the name and Alfred will typically present it in the search results. All you have to remember is a word or two of the name of the collection, and then select the collection. But for snippets you don’t use on a regular basis, you can simply trigger Alfred’s Snippets View to search and navigate your saved snippets. You can assign keywords to paste individual snippets of text. I save collections of snippets that I may not access on a regular basis, but I know they are there in Alfred when I need them.

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You can download from the Alfred website snippet collections, a collection of snippets such as Mac symbols which I use in this and other articles, an Emoji Pack, a collection of Currency Symbols, and a few others. You can also use Alfred to store and retrieve saved snippets of text or libraries of snippets. Copied text of course gets copied to Alfred Clipboard History, and other Clipboard History applications, including iClip, which I have previously reviewed. To quickly save batches of text, I use another Keyboard Maestro macro and string trigger, “cll”, that triggers the ⌘A and then ⌘C shortcuts. It’s for that reason I try to quickly copy important snippets of text and information I might need again, or that might get removed in the process of submitting or saving the content. Copy Everything!Īs someone who works at the computer all day, it’s a huge time suck to retype text I’ve previously typed, or research URLs or other content I’ve used. To trigger the Down Arrow, I use my assigned ⌘+J shortcuts, and to navigate back up the list I use ⌥+J combination. Quickly navigating the Alfred’s Clipboard History using a Keyboard Maestro macro shortcut. Here’s a quick video of me using my KM macro to navigate the Alfred history list. This way I don’t have to look down at my keyboard to locate those keys, and I can keep my hands on the home keys. So I created a Keyboard Maestro macro that allows me to trigger the Arrows using assigned shortcuts. However, I can never locate those arrow keys without looking down at my keyboard. To navigate the Clipboard History, you can either use your cursor or the down/up Arrow keys on your keyboard. All I have to do is type my stringer trigger and the Alfred window will appear and automatically open in Clipboard History view. This saves me one step in the process and I don’t have to look down at my keyboard to locate the shortcut combination.Īs you can see in the Keyboard Maestro macro on the right, the KM triggers the assigned hotkey for Alfred’s Clipboard Viewer. To reduce a step while I’m typing in a document, I use a Keyboard Maestro string trigger to trigger Alfred’s Clipboard Viewer. As an automator, the process is one step too slow for me. To trigger Alfred’s Clipboard Viewer, you have to first trigger the Alfred input window, and then type the keyword for to open the Clipboard History, or you can use the assigned hotkey.

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