This repo has my (public) text expansion snippets.
Text expansion apps allow me to save keystrokes when I'm typing common words – for example, if I type intl, my computer expands it to international.
That saves me 9 keystrokes.
It may not seem like much, but I use these snippets dozens of times a day and it quickly adds up!
This repo has a script that creates a collection of snippets to use in Alfred.
I use a script rather than an in-app snippet editor because I want to share snippets between my home and work computers.
Most apps sync their preferences through some sort of cloud storage, e.g. Dropbox or iCloud. I don't want to connect my home and work computers that way – I try to keep them separate. e.g. I don't log into my work email on my home computer, and I don't log in to my personal iCloud on my work laptop.
By putting my snippets in a GitHub repo, I can check out the repo on both computers and get the same set of snippets, but in a way that maintains the gap between the machines. Neither machine can directly affect the other.
I don't put all my snippets in this repo; just the ones I can make public. For example, my home computer has extra snippets for personal info like my phone number and my address. I configure those in the in-app editor, because I don't want to put them in a public Git repo and I don't need them on my work computer.
$ python3 create_snippets.pyThis will create a new file Alex’s snippets.alfredsnippets, which you can open to add these snippets to Alfred Preferences.