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Posted on December 6, 2020 at 21:10 CST by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

BEST UTILITIES

By Deanna McElveen

If you’re like me, you find yourself typing the same bits of text over and over again.

Ideally, you’d have a handy tool to let you quickly paste frequently entered prose.

There are a number of utilities for entering strings of text via keyboard shortcuts (examples). But another spin on that trick really caught my attention. Xavier Michelon’s Beeftext uses text-based keywords rather than keyboard key combinations. Why is a text keyword better? You don’t have to worry about key-combo conflicts with applications.

Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.48.0 (2020-12-07).

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