TextExpander End of Year Summary Email: A Look At Your Stats

One of the annual highlights at TextExpander is reading your responses to your end of year summary emails. For TextExpander newbies, each year we send out a summary email containing the stats on how much time you’ve saved by using TextExpander. Data from the number and size of the snippets you’ve expanded is used to calculate roughly how many hours, and often days, you’ve saved. There’s more information on how TextExpander works out your time savings here, if you’re curious!

Our end of year summary is easily one of our favorite emails to send out to our community and we love your feedback. Today, we wanted to share with you not only the time that TextExpander users have saved but a look at how they’ve put that time to use. Here’s how much time the TextExpander community is saving!

So How Much Time Did You Save?

Last year, members of our community clocked up not just hours, but days saved of laborious typing time. For some, it was a couple days freed from typing…

Here's my annual recommendation for @TextExpander, a text auto-replacement program that I've bought and appreciated for many years.

If you have messages, code, and snippets that you type repeatedly, a program like this is extremely helpful. pic.twitter.com/KvKeHkTL0V
— W. Eric Martin (@BoardgameNews) January 20, 2022

True fact: @TextExpander has an internal log that tells me I save 4 days of typing time in 2021—and 34 days since I started using it over a decade ago. It's the one Mac utility I swear by. https://t.co/6TdiawpLHt
— Drummond Reed (@drummondreed) January 20, 2022

Efficiency win 💪 I saved 5 days last year with @TextExpander, and 21 days since I started 4 years ago! 🤩 https://t.co/fi47bDZx51
— Laura Jolly (@LauraEJolly) January 20, 2022

While others saved over a week thanks to their speedy snippets…

Quick productivity hack with quantified benefits.

In 2021 I saved 7 days (80 WPM in 8-hour days) using @TextExpander shortcuts instead of typing everything.

Over the lifetime of use I have now saved 30 days of typing. That is 96,000 keystrokes I haven't had to use#phdchat pic.twitter.com/4OoeuPZf83
— Prof Mark Hutchinson (@prof_hutchinson) January 20, 2022

In 2021, I saved 8 whole days of my life, thanks to @TextExpander.

Truly a must-have.

(20% off an annual plan – https://t.co/0KcqpenDEA) pic.twitter.com/ouSozj3SuK
— Rob Bettis (@robbettis) January 20, 2022

I saved 10 days last year with @TextExpander! And 36 days since I started. https://t.co/Pz9yrRSwFe
— Don Schaffner 🦠 (@bugcounter) January 20, 2022

And then some users even clocked in with multiple weeks saved in just one year.

I saved 33 days last year with @TextExpander! And 91 days since I started. https://t.co/vuTJvIWk4J
— 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Stuart 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@welsh_stu) January 20, 2022

How Did You Spend That Time?

Some of you even let us know how you put your saved time to good use!

I saved 2 days last year with @TextExpander! https://t.co/w8Lak1mLBw
— Dr Alison Hardy (@hardy_alison) January 20, 2022

I’ve been a @TextExpander user for a few years so this figure is cumulative, but WOW. This equates to 15.5 work-weeks I’ve saved.

Maybe I should take another #epictrip @thesiswhisperer?

I’ve earned it.

🍦 🍦 🍦 pic.twitter.com/a4TZZRJOcN
— Dr. JD (@jasondowns) January 21, 2022

.@TextExpander saved me 9 days of typing just last year. That's a lot of ice cream to eat @jasondowns! pic.twitter.com/Z5b1F1ADaP
— Prof Inger Mewburn (@thesiswhisperer) January 20, 2022

And some of you shared the benefits you experienced, too:

According to @TextExpander, TextExpander has saved me 6 hours in 2021.

I actually think it's much more than that in terms of "mental energy saved"! pic.twitter.com/VzFynUe2Wb
— Christoph Janz (@chrija) January 21, 2022

And some advice on how to boost your numbers:

What the TextExpander Team Did With Their Saved Time

We asked some of the team what they did with all the time they saved using TextExpander this year. Here’s what they said:

I used that time to write!

My family bought a house, and I spent every saved hour (and then some!) trying to bring it from 1982 to 2022.

I used my saved hours to build my spiritual health this past year.

I spent my time journaling and meditating, both total gamechangers!

Find Out How Much Time You’ve Saved

Alongside our emails, you can find out your own TextExpander time savings whenever you’d like to within the app. Simply open the app, select your username, then select “Statistics” to be taken to your stats page.

How much time did you save this year? Let us know. If you want to boost your stats but don’t know where to start, try these posts:

TextExpander Public Groups 101

How To Use TextExpander for Autocorrection

Using Snippets for Your Personal Life