{"id":18322,"date":"2019-05-12T16:18:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T23:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=18322"},"modified":"2019-05-12T16:20:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T23:20:48","slug":"textexpander-screencastsonline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/textexpander-screencastsonline\/","title":{"rendered":"TextExpander Tutorial on ScreenCastsOnline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sco-logo.png\" alt=\"ScreenCasts Online logo\" width=\"250\" height=\"\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16398\" \/>Every time I produce a video tutorial for <a href=\"https:\/\/ScreenCastsOnline.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ScreenCastsOnline<\/a>, I tell you that it&#8217;s amazing.  But <em>this<\/em> time I really mean it!  My latest tutorial is on TextExpander, the amazing text-expansion tool for the Mac from <a href =\"https:\/\/TextExpander.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TextExpander.com<\/a>.  Their latest subscription-based version 6 of the software has many very advanced features from the old standalone version 5. I knew I wasn&#8217;t using it to its full potential and the best way to learn a tool is to have to teach it.<\/p>\n<p>I know that the audience is made up of people who&#8217;ve never used TextExpander, many who&#8217;ve tried it but just couldn&#8217;t seem to remember the abbreviations for the snippets they&#8217;d created, to people who&#8217;ve been using TextExpander for ages and already love it.  Because of the very different levels of viewers, I took a different approach to teaching TextExpander.<\/p>\n<p>I started very slowly, describing the different elements of the tool interface. I created the simplest possible snippet, an abbreviation to type out my name.  From there I started ramping it up very quickly to show the more advanced features.  For example, did you know that you can nest snippets inside of one another? I showed how I can have a snippet for just my name, but a signature snippet that includes the name snippet.  Did you know you can embed dates in snippets?  How about date math?  Did you know you can embed Shellscript, JavaScript, and AppleScript.<\/p>\n<p>I taught some really cool ways to help you find the snippets you&#8217;ve created without having to remember them and without ever lifting your hands from the keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>This tutorial really flowed well and I think it&#8217;s one of the best ones I&#8217;ve done. I hope you&#8217;ll consider going over to <a href=\"https:\/\/screencastsonline.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ScreenCastsOnline<\/a> and check out the free 7-day trial of the service, which gives you access to the back catalog and of course my tutorial on TextExpander.  I put a link to the teaser video on podfeet so you can see the introduction to get you excited about it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-18322-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"auto\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/donmc1\/SCOM0835-text-preview-1080.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/donmc1\/SCOM0835-text-preview-1080.mp4\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/donmc1\/SCOM0835-text-preview-1080.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I produce a video tutorial for ScreenCastsOnline, I tell you that it&#8217;s amazing. But this time I really mean it! My latest tutorial is on TextExpander, the amazing text-expansion tool for the Mac from TextExpander.com. 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