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TextExpander lets you save the text you type most often as snippets and insert them anywhere with a short abbreviation. This category is the hub for using it well. You’ll find step-by-step tutorials, tips on fill-ins, formatting, and public groups, guidance on TextExpander’s AI features, release notes, webinars, and stories from customers who’ve saved hours each week. New users can start with the beginner tutorials, and teams can learn how to share snippets for consistent messaging.

The Abbreviation Prefixes TextExpander Experts Use

Abbreviation prefixes keep TextExpander Snippets short, memorable, and hard to trigger by accident. Compare the prefixes experienced users rely on, such as double commas, semicolons, periods, and slashes, plus group prefixes.

Josh Centers

Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT with TextExpander 

Prompt engineering for ChatGPT can help writers analyze their work instead of replacing it. Screenwriter Ryan Briggs shares prompts for evaluating memos, breaking down scenes, and spotting reversals, plus their limits.

Josh Centers

How to Use ChatGPT with TextExpander

Using ChatGPT with TextExpander lets you save reusable prompts as Snippets for translation, style guides, meta descriptions, and customer replies. See how the TextExpander MCP Server connects your Snippet library to ChatGPT.

Clive Hanks

TextExpander Best Practices: 7 Customer Success Secrets

TextExpander best practices from the Customer Success team cover how to organize Snippets into groups, choose group names and prefixes, use inline search, and split or nest Snippets so they stay easy to find and reuse.

Josh Centers

How the 80/20 Rule Applies to TextExpander

The 80/20 rule suggests a large share of what you type is nearly identical. See how the principle applies to TextExpander and where to start: your most-sent emails, long words you use often, and Snippet suggestions.

Kerry Provenzano

Open Library Series: Jennifer Burnett’s Power User Snippets

Jennifer Burnett, Customer Success Manager at TextExpander, shares the power user Snippets behind her customer calls and trainings. Get a look at how she onboards teams and adapts TextExpander to each customer's needs.

Marcelle Santos

Open Library Series: Rex Mann’s Powerful Snippets

Rex Mann, Training Enablement Manager at TextExpander, shares his favorite Snippets and how he reviews Public Groups. Hear how he explains TextExpander to new teams, plus a story about some very aggressive squirrels.

Marcelle Santos

How and Why to Create a Public Group

Publishing a TextExpander Public Group lets other users subscribe to your Snippets. See why people share groups and how to prepare yours with the right permissions, privacy checks, prefixes, notes, labels, and organization.

Brad McCarty