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Shorthand
for Mac

Type less, say more.

Type an abbreviation like ;sig anywhere and it becomes your full text. Type ;; to search the prompts you reuse every day.

Free. Requires macOS 14 or later.

The Shorthand app icon: a semicolon key turning into lines of text
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Abbreviations, everywhere

Type ;sig, ;addr or any shortcut you like, in any app, and it's replaced with your text the moment you finish typing it.

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Prompt Bank

Keep the prompts and replies you reuse in one place. Type ;; anywhere for a searchable launcher with a preview, or pick one from the menu bar.

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Templates that fill themselves

{date}, {time}, {clipboard} and {cursor} fill in automatically, along with saved variables like {company}.

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Asks for the rest

Any other {Name} opens a small form when you insert the snippet, with multi-line fields, menus and optional sections.

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Your clipboard, put back

Snippets are pasted, then whatever you had copied comes straight back. Clipboard managers are told to skip the temporary copy.

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Lives in the menu bar

A quiet menu-bar app with a snippets editor, Pause Expansion and Open at Login. Code like ${x} is left exactly as typed.

Privacy

No account, no ads, no tracking. Your snippets stay on your Mac.

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