By Profession

Find productivity advice written for your role. This section groups TextExpander’s guides by profession, so customer support agents, sales reps, recruiters, clinicians, developers and founders can go straight to the templates, scripts, metrics and workflows that matter in their day-to-day work. Each guide explains the task, shows real examples you can copy and covers how teams save time by standardizing the messages and notes they write most often.

Run Your Hiring Process from Trello

Running a hiring process from Trello keeps candidates and steps visible to everyone involved. See how the TextExpander team set up a Trello board, with Google Docs and Snippets for job posts, emails, interviews, and decisions.

Kerry Provenzano

Ask a Recruiter: Marvin Booker

Sourcing specialist Marvin Booker shares how a background in hospitality shaped his recruiting approach, what drives him day to day, his recruiting superpower, and the technology tools he relies on as a recruiter.

Maisha Cannon

How to Instantly Insert Your Most Used Bash Commands

Some bash commands are too rare to memorize but too useful to keep looking up. Get commands for cleaning up merged git branches, checking what's running on a port, decompressing files, and aliasing, plus TextExpander tips.

Toby Osbourn

Write Better Issue Tracking Tickets: Consistency Is Key

Consistent issue tracking tickets help developers estimate work and stay in flow. Get guidelines for writing feature, bug, and task tickets, plus ways to keep tickets consistent in GitHub, GitLab, and other trackers.

Toby Osbourn

How to Optimize Your Day as a Remote Recruiter (Part 3)

The final part of the remote recruiter series covers tools for team communication, time management, time zone tracking, job workflow tracking, and writing, so remote recruiting stays organized day to day.

Maisha Cannon

How to Optimize Your Day as a Remote Recruiter (Part 2)

Part 2 of the remote recruiter series looks at the foundation of a recruiting tech stack: news aggregators, project management apps, recruiting tools and resources, and scheduling software for distributed teams.

Maisha Cannon

How to Optimize Your Day as a Remote Recruiter (Part 1)

Remote recruiters need the right tools to stay connected with their teams. Part 1 of this series covers cloud storage, collaboration apps, coworking spaces, focus aids, and video meeting tools worth using.

Maisha Cannon

How to Solve Common Recruiting Problems: 5 Common Challenges

Recruiting problems like limited talent pools, candidate ghosting, and unresponsive hiring managers have practical fixes. See the situation and solution for five common challenges, including sourcing time and engagement.

Maisha Cannon