TextExpander

"I can't remember which Snippet this is..." If you manage a team's knowledge base, you've heard this before. Your team has hundreds of Snippets. Email templates, meeting agendas, response templates, documentation. Everything they need is in the library. But when someone needs it RIGHT NOW—in the middle of composing an email—they can't remember the abbreviation. So what happens? → They search through lists → They ask in Slack → Or they just retype it manually (and risk getting it wrong) Watch what happens when you remove the memorization requirement. In this demo, a patient care coordinator needs to send staff meeting information. He has dozens of meeting Snippets but can't remember which one. With TextExpander's new icon: - Click once - Type what the Snippet is about - Get exactly what you need No memorization. No interrupting your workflow. This is what happens when you design knowledge management around how people actually work instead of how software wants them to work. The TextExpander icon is available now in Chrome and Edge, with Mac and Windows coming soon. What's your team's biggest challenge with making information accessible when people need it?

💻 Small Hinges Swing Big Doors I can't think of anything intelligent to say today so instead I will mention that one of the best tools I found is a simple program called TextExpander. It can be described as thus: you type a simple line of text and it will "expand" into something longer or more detailed. For example, I use "zem" which expands into my email. I also use ",file" which expands into a fillable field for use in naming files (e.g. 20251208 Sample Client WP Schedule of Taxes Interest and Penalties") I also use it for blocks of text for timesheet entries or notations in the case narrative file I keep. I am only using a fraction of its power as you can do nested snippets which can create a document's worth of text (to include dates, optional clauses, and pick-item menus). It saves me probably 15-30 minutes a day, depending on the day's activities. That may not seem a lot but over the course of a year I saved 2-3 days of time. Still, life is a game of inches and I would rather have used those days for a day off rather than typing repetitive text. This sort of functionality is not just exclusive to TextExpander, there are competitors out there in the market. If you are typing everything out again and again maybe consider something like TextExpander. No one on their deathbed ever said I wished I had spent more time typing my email address!

1.05 billion. That's how many times TextExpander users expanded a Snippet in 2025. Let that sink in for a moment. 33 snippet expansions every single second. 2.9 million per day. But here's what really matters behind that number: Every single expansion represents a moment where someone didn't have to: → Retype the same information for the hundredth time → Hunt through old emails for "that thing we always say" → Ask a colleague "how do we format this again?" → Risk introducing an error by manually typing dates, prices, or policies 1.05 billion moments of friction removed. In aggregate, TextExpander users saved 1.3 million workdays this year. The average user got 57.5 hours back—that's seven full workdays returned to every person. We didn't achieve this by adding more features or complexity. We did it by solving a fundamental problem: **Institutional knowledge is worthless if people can't access it the moment they need it.** Most organizations are drowning in their own documentation. The challenge isn't creating more content—it's making existing knowledge retrievable, consistent, and actually used. The gap between "we have the information somewhere" and "I can use it right now" is where productivity dies. 1.05 billion expansions proves it's possible to close that gap. What's your team's biggest knowledge management challenge? Where does institutional knowledge go to die in your organization?

Medical billing training is broken. 50% of claim denials come from missing or inaccurate data (per Experian). Each denial costs $25-50 to fix (Per Advantum Health). New hires take up to 90 days to become productive. That's not a training timeline. That's revenue bleeding out. Healthcare orgs can cut onboarding from 90 days to 4 weeks by capturing institutional knowledge in TextExpander Snippets. No more shadowing. No more trial-and-error. Just systematic training that works. How long does billing training take at your organization? Check out the full breakdown →

Level up your team with TextExpander

We listened. You spoke. Here's what we built. Over the past year, we've been collecting feedback from TextExpander users about what would make their workflows even better. The most common themes? Speed up common tasks, make Snippet discovery more intuitive, and give teams better collaboration tools. Join us for From Feedback to Features: TextExpander's 2025 Product Showcase 📅 Thursday, December 11th at 2pm ET Register here: https://txpdr.us/uoizw Our VP of Product Anand Rajaram, along with product managers Shweta Nayak and Jason Burk, will demo five new features built around making TextExpander faster and more powerful for teams. What you'll see: ⏱️ Faster date formatting in Snippets 🔍 Enhanced Snippet discovery tools 👥 Team collaboration features for managing shared knowledge 🤖 AI-powered Snippet suggestions 📂 Version control and Snippet restoration Whether you're streamlining solo workflows or managing team consistency, you'll see practical ways to get more value from TextExpander. This is a live demo showcase—real features, real workflows, real time savings. What feature would save you the most time? Let us know in the comments.

If you're a fan of #productivity tools, you should consider TextExpander. I've been using their software for years (290 weeks so far), and today they sent me my annual end-of-year stats. I knew it was useful; it's activated multiple times every day, but this is a new record for me! I've "saved" 35 days of typing effort using their software 😳 They calculate "Days" saved as 8-hour working days at 50 WPM.