Texter a great text replacement tool (that's free)

OK my lifehacking friends, head on over to Lifehacker.com and pick yourself up a copy of Texter their free text replacement tool.  Think about the way you use your computer and the way that you end up repeating yourself as you type.  

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Unlike software-specific text replacement features, Texter runs in the Windows system tray and works in any application you're typing in. Texter can also set return-to markers for your cursor and insert clipboard contents into your replacement text, in addition to more advanced keyboard macros. Did we mention it's free?

By way of example, while in a support capacity, I had to explain (in great detail) how customers could take a screenshot and send it to us, so with texter, I defined a "hotstring"  called "screenshot."  that results in the detailed instructions being filled in.  So now, instead of trying to remember all the steps for creating a screenshot, texter remembers for me.  AND for the quality nuts in the audience, if I realize my instructions are unclear, I can improve them and consequently EVERY time I use it in the future, they get the improved instructions.  So there is a consistency benefit, a memory benefit, a typing less while communicating more benefit and a quality benefit.

In another capacity we had customers calling to ask for intranet services, and we needed to ask them a number of questions. (pcname, user's network login, deadline, manager's approval etc.)  So for each of these requests we would send back an email asking all of these questions.  You guessed it, texter to the rescue, saving us most of the effort in each of those emails.   10 minutes of careful wording was replaced with "cmsrequest."  Brilliant!

Let me add that texter works almost everywhere.  I've seen it work in dos based applications, in browsers, on webpages, in office applications and more.  But you are wondering, how much time does that save?  Well from my experience, while working in a capacity where very little work was repeated, in a little over a year texter estimates that it saved me 2 days of typing.  Thanks Texter!

So don't delay, head on over to Lifehacker.com and pick yourself up a copy of Texter their free text replacement tool.