I have always found text expanding apps to be very helpful and I used to use TextExpander on my Mac extensively.
Since moving the majority of my work to Dynalist, however, a platform specific text expansion app no longer suits my needs. I use Dynalist on a Mac (Safari), iPad (Safari), iPhone (app), but mainly on a Chromebook (Chrome).
Text expansion within Dynalist could solve this problem. It could work a little like cmd-k auto-formats links.
I could envisage a special Dynalist list that contains the title and text to be expanded. The trigger key could be user-defined. The list might look like this, using “;;” as a trigger.
;;imply Imply/Infer
- Be careful not to confuse the words “imply” and “infer”. Remember, the speaker implies, the listener infers.
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- The judge strongly implied that he would impose the harshest possible sentence.
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- The defendant inferred from the judge’s words that he was in serious trouble.
Everything after the trigger “;;imply” would be expanded, respecting the formatting and hierarchy of the text expansion list.
I think something like this could work cross-platform and be very useful in a variety of situations.
Steve