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Notes manager for macOS/iOS
https://fsnot.es
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Support Native Mac OS Text Expansion #974

Closed brandon-carag closed 4 years ago

brandon-carag commented 4 years ago

Describe your feature request OS X natively supports text expansion. For example, it's commonplace to have to type in your email address in several different apps. If your email address was john@example.com, you can set up a text expansion shortcut so you only need to type j@ex followed by the enter key and j@ex will auto-expand to john@example.com.

System Preferences > Keyboard > 'Text' tab > + Icon

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This currently works in apps like Chrome, Stickies, etc.

There are other utilities that provide this kind of functionality (e.g. TextExpander, etc.), but supporting the native Mac functionality would give all FS Notes users immediate access to this kind of productivity functionality.

Additional context Mac OS

tewe commented 4 years ago

It already works for me with 4.6.1 on 10.14.6

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glushchenko commented 4 years ago

I did nothing ¯_(ツ)_/¯

gingerbeardman commented 4 years ago

I can't get it to work.

brandon-carag commented 4 years ago

I'm on Mac OS Mojave for what it's worth. Not sure if you guys are running Catalina...

gingerbeardman commented 4 years ago

I'm also on Mojave.

I had the Text Replacement option unchecked. Now it's checked and it works

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brandon-carag commented 4 years ago

gingerbeardman's solution worked for me as well. Closing this--thanks!