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In this video, I wanna show you an app

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that's gonna save you a ton of time.

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I use this app every single day when I'm writing emails

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or when I'm designing or developing

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and I just need to pull in a large section of text

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or something that I reuse all the time

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and it saves me a ton of keystrokes

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and stuff that would normally waste a lot of time.

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So let's jump into the app here.

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And so if I go to my desktop,

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the app is called Text Expander.

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So I'm gonna open this up.

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Let's open Text Expander.

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And what it lets you do is it lets you create

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a whole lot of different shortcuts.

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So I use this for everything.

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Like if you need to create hex code value

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or you need to create an email template for someone,

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you can do that with this.

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So I'm gonna show you how this works

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by just opening up TextEdit

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and it works in every single app.

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If you're in a browser,

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if you're in a Word document, in a keynote,

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anything like that.

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So let me make this really big.

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And you just slowly memorize these things over time.

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So if I wanted to insert this,

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this is a brand colors.

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Let's go into like,

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there's a certain shade of blue

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that we use for our brand, for Enovo.

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So if I just type like Enovo and then blue,

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that text gets changed into the hex code for that.

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So you know how like you always have to go

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and dig through it, find that brand,

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find out exactly where that hex code is.

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This lets you just jump to it

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when you're in design software or whatever,

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and you need to get that color,

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you can just pull it right in.

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I have something else called like Enovo Feedback

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or I think it's Enovo Review.

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And so what it does is it pops up a little window.

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I know this may be a little small,

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but it's a template builder where it says,

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hey, had a quick favor to ask

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as we've successfully wrapped up your project for,

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can I just say like your new website?

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I'd love to get a quick review from you.

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Here's the link.

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And it says, hopefully this won't take

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more than two or three minutes.

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I appreciate the help.

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And I click okay.

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And it just inserts that entire email template

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into mail or to whatever app that I have

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where I wanna send this.

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So I could drop this into a Facebook message.

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I could really do this anywhere.

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I could essentially put this in an email,

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Facebook template anywhere you want.

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But it doesn't mean you have to rewrite this

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over and over again.

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So let me jump back into the app here.

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Let's try a few more that I use all the time.

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Let's see.

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And you can see, I slowly,

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I didn't start one day with all of these.

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I've been building these shortcuts up for a very long time.

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So when you get the app,

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and by the way, this app, I think it is paid.

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There's a free version, but I think it's paid.

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I think it's three, $4 a month that we pay for this.

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And you can actually go to statistics here.

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And I know this may be small on your screen,

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but it shows you how many characters saved

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and how many times I've used this.

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I don't know what this is in the last year,

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but this is in the last like,

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yeah, this is just this year in the last 30 days.

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I've used this 3,100 times in the last 30 days.

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That's pretty crazy.

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And it tells you how many hours of typing I've saved,

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nine hours of typing that I've saved

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just by copying and pasting these things in.

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And so a couple other ones you could use,

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like I use this for Calendly.

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You know how you always have Calendly links?

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If I hit C-A-L, and then I just type a number,

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like a 15 minute meeting or a 30 minute meeting

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or a 60 minute, I hit type one, five,

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and it pastes that.

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If I go Cal 30, it does that.

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If I go Cal 60, it drops that in.

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So if I'm in an email and I'm trying to get a client

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to schedule a meeting,

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I don't have to go look up my Calendly link

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or have a sticky and try and remember what it was.

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I just, I'm saying, hey, schedule a quick meeting.

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I put Cal and then the number of how long

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I want the meeting to be,

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and it just drops in that Calendly link.

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And I've automated that whole piece of my business.

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So it's just really cool.

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You can save a ton of time and effort by doing this.

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I highly recommend installing this.

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And just slowly over time,

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the things that you have to write over and over again,

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just slowly build these up.

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And yeah, I was gonna show you how to make a new template.

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So I'm gonna hit new snippet here.

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I'm gonna say like, here is my templated email.

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And you can set this up to be either a plain text

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or even formatted.

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So if you wanna go in here and say like, hello,

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and then you can put client there,

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like it was great meeting with you today.

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And then you could write a bunch of stuff

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like here's what we need from you.

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And then I'll put like a bullet list,

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which you can design this on any other app

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and then just bring that in.

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So I may say like, this thing, that thing, this other thing.

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thing and we could make those you know bullets or whatever um just doing a very quick example

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you could format this make it look pretty like um let's you know schedule our next

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call and i'll be like cal 30s um i'll bring in this one

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and uh and then i'll be like talk soon bruce and then so what i want to call this is like

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you know client follow-up and the abbreviation i'm going to use that as the abbreviation so it's

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characters that typically don't go together like client follow-up all one word and now i can go

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over to any text document go client follow-up and it just builds that little like template for me so

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i hope that's helpful i hope that that is useful to you i think it works for every single business

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if you're a business owner you're all about efficiency and automation so i would highly

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recommend that you check out text expander and give it a try i think it works for mac and pc so

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enjoy