In this video, I wanna show you an app
that's gonna save you a ton of time.
I use this app every single day when I'm writing emails
or when I'm designing or developing
and I just need to pull in a large section of text
or something that I reuse all the time
and it saves me a ton of keystrokes
and stuff that would normally waste a lot of time.
So let's jump into the app here.
And so if I go to my desktop,
the app is called Text Expander.
So I'm gonna open this up.
Let's open Text Expander.
And what it lets you do is it lets you create
a whole lot of different shortcuts.
So I use this for everything.
Like if you need to create hex code value
or you need to create an email template for someone,
you can do that with this.
So I'm gonna show you how this works
by just opening up TextEdit
and it works in every single app.
If you're in a browser,
if you're in a Word document, in a keynote,
anything like that.
So let me make this really big.
And you just slowly memorize these things over time.
So if I wanted to insert this,
this is a brand colors.
Let's go into like,
there's a certain shade of blue
that we use for our brand, for Enovo.
So if I just type like Enovo and then blue,
that text gets changed into the hex code for that.
So you know how like you always have to go
and dig through it, find that brand,
find out exactly where that hex code is.
This lets you just jump to it
when you're in design software or whatever,
and you need to get that color,
you can just pull it right in.
I have something else called like Enovo Feedback
or I think it's Enovo Review.
And so what it does is it pops up a little window.
I know this may be a little small,
but it's a template builder where it says,
hey, had a quick favor to ask
as we've successfully wrapped up your project for,
can I just say like your new website?
I'd love to get a quick review from you.
Here's the link.
And it says, hopefully this won't take
more than two or three minutes.
I appreciate the help.
And I click okay.
And it just inserts that entire email template
into mail or to whatever app that I have
where I wanna send this.
So I could drop this into a Facebook message.
I could really do this anywhere.
I could essentially put this in an email,
Facebook template anywhere you want.
But it doesn't mean you have to rewrite this
over and over again.
So let me jump back into the app here.
Let's try a few more that I use all the time.
Let's see.
And you can see, I slowly,
I didn't start one day with all of these.
I've been building these shortcuts up for a very long time.
So when you get the app,
and by the way, this app, I think it is paid.
There's a free version, but I think it's paid.
I think it's three, $4 a month that we pay for this.
And you can actually go to statistics here.
And I know this may be small on your screen,
but it shows you how many characters saved
and how many times I've used this.
I don't know what this is in the last year,
but this is in the last like,
yeah, this is just this year in the last 30 days.
I've used this 3,100 times in the last 30 days.
That's pretty crazy.
And it tells you how many hours of typing I've saved,
nine hours of typing that I've saved
just by copying and pasting these things in.
And so a couple other ones you could use,
like I use this for Calendly.
You know how you always have Calendly links?
If I hit C-A-L, and then I just type a number,
like a 15 minute meeting or a 30 minute meeting
or a 60 minute, I hit type one, five,
and it pastes that.
If I go Cal 30, it does that.
If I go Cal 60, it drops that in.
So if I'm in an email and I'm trying to get a client
to schedule a meeting,
I don't have to go look up my Calendly link
or have a sticky and try and remember what it was.
I just, I'm saying, hey, schedule a quick meeting.
I put Cal and then the number of how long
I want the meeting to be,
and it just drops in that Calendly link.
And I've automated that whole piece of my business.
So it's just really cool.
You can save a ton of time and effort by doing this.
I highly recommend installing this.
And just slowly over time,
the things that you have to write over and over again,
just slowly build these up.
And yeah, I was gonna show you how to make a new template.
So I'm gonna hit new snippet here.
I'm gonna say like, here is my templated email.
And you can set this up to be either a plain text
or even formatted.
So if you wanna go in here and say like, hello,
and then you can put client there,
like it was great meeting with you today.
And then you could write a bunch of stuff
like here's what we need from you.
And then I'll put like a bullet list,
which you can design this on any other app
and then just bring that in.
So I may say like, this thing, that thing, this other thing.
thing and we could make those you know bullets or whatever um just doing a very quick example
you could format this make it look pretty like um let's you know schedule our next
call and i'll be like cal 30s um i'll bring in this one
and uh and then i'll be like talk soon bruce and then so what i want to call this is like
you know client follow-up and the abbreviation i'm going to use that as the abbreviation so it's
characters that typically don't go together like client follow-up all one word and now i can go
over to any text document go client follow-up and it just builds that little like template for me so
i hope that's helpful i hope that that is useful to you i think it works for every single business
if you're a business owner you're all about efficiency and automation so i would highly
recommend that you check out text expander and give it a try i think it works for mac and pc so
enjoy