Less typing, fewer mistakes. More spare time!
Have you ever experienced the tedium and frustration of having to repeatedly type your name, e-mail address, home page url, or other words or phrases again, again and again? Do you frequently need to quickly insert images like your signature, location plan, or company logo into documents? Do you often misspell words when typing?
Typinator boosts your productivity by automating the process of inserting frequently used text and graphics and auto-correcting typing errors.
With thousands of predefined corrections for common typos and misspelled words for US and British English, German and French, Typinator is not only a typing assistant that speeds repetitive typing tasks, but also a system-wide auto-correction tool that automatically fixes typing errors and misspelled words.
Setup is easy: You just define an abbreviation along with its replacement text or picture.
Usage is even easier: Whenever you type one of your abbreviations in any application, Typinator inserts the corresponding replacement.
Words cannot describe the huge benefits Typinator offers to you.
We therefore invite you to view a short demo movie.
Typinator increases your
Personal productivity
- Set up a list of often used e-mail phrases, addresses and other boilerplates.
- Insert the current date and/or time in a variety of formats with a few keystrokes.
- Auto-correct commonly misspelled words across all the applications you use.
- Insert pictures, such as signatures and smilies.
Business productivity
- Create standard customer service responses.
- Acknowledge customer orders and send shipping advisories (with the current date and time automatically inserted into your standard text).
- Insert logos, product schematics, and maps.
- Auto-correct your most frequent typing errors.
Development productivity
- Create templates for code fragments, code blocks, and templates.
- Implement documentation standards.
- Define shorthands for frequently used Unix commands.
- Use the built-in HTML snippets to simplify and speed up editing of web pages.
Starting with version 5.5, Typinator supports calculations inside expansions. You can use this powerful new feature to create dynamic expansions without any programming knowledge. For example, use interactive input fields to ask for a price and the number of items. Then calculate the total amount with {{total=#amount*price}} and insert the total amount with two digits after the decimal point: {{#total:2}}. Following this simple principle, you can expand the calculation with taxes, discounts, etc. Add some formatting, including your company logo, and you are ready to send a bill with just a few keystrokes.
You can use such calculations for all sorts of tasks. For example, you can convert HP to kW or Celcius to Fahrenheit, estimate the number of days to finish a project, calculate loan rates, solve quadratic equations, and so on. You can even use variables to count certain expansions, such as {{offers=#offers+1}}. At the end of the month, you can quickly produce statistics based on these counters: How many offers did you sent out, how many requests did you answer?
But it doesn't end here, as you can combine calculations with other features of Typinator. For example, use the estimated days for finishing a project in date calculations to include the completion date in an expansion. Or use the currency conversion script from our Downloads Extras page to display the computed price in both US$ and Euros. Or copy a price from a web page and use the content of the clipboard in calculations. Or combine the current time with calculations to keep track of the time spent on projects. The possibilities are virtually endless.
Features, installation, requirements
Main features
- Easy to configure
- Simple to use
- Include script results in expansions
- Interactive input fields
- Embedded calculations
- Text file includes
- Pocket calculator
- Date and time calculation
- Quickly create new snippets
- Quickly search for snippets
- AutoCorrection sets
- Set options let you define individual settings per set.
- Synchronization support for DropBox and MobileMe iDisk
- Export and import snippet sets in various formats
- Set the cursor position within the expanded text.
- Insert the current clipboard into the expanded text.
- Insert navigation keystrokes
- Inserts the current date and time
- "Types" pictures
- Preformatted text insertion
- Case sensitive expansion
- HTML snippets set
Installation
To install Typinator, download it from our downloads page. Typinator is distributed as a Mac OS X disk image (DMG).
Once you have mounted the disk image, simply double-click the Typinator icon to install and launch Typinator.
As long as you do not have a license key, you can test Typinator in TextEdit as long and as often as you wish.
When you use Typinator in other applications, it will display a registration reminder after a couple of expansions.
Tips
See also the special topics covered on our Tips pages.