Your phone already expands omw to “On my way!” so that’s handy too. You can see that I have about a half-dozen setup, including the hadb that I’m demonstrating. You can set up your own keyboard shortcuts on the Mac by going into System Preferences… and finding Keyboard:Ĭhoose it, then go to the “Shortcuts” tab: When I add the ‘b’ to make the full shortcut phrase, a tiny tip window pops up:īut I don’t have to use the mouse and click on it, simply typing in a space auto-replaces the acronym with the phrase: In Facebook, I might well be wishing someone that happy day like this: The secret is that phrase is a keyboard shortcut on my Mac system so I literally just type in hadb and it’s automatically expanded. Pedantic, maybe, but I routinely wish “Happy anniversary of the day of your birth”. I like to wish my friends happy birthday on Facebook, but it’s not really their birthday, it’s the anniversary of their birth day. And it just happens to be the case that this very feature is built-in to macOS and surprisingly easy to use. The idea is that you type in an atypical sequence of characters and/or digits and the computer automatically converts that into a word, a phrase, a URL, really whatever you want. Īnother smart solution is to use keyboard shortcuts. One that I like is to use dictation: I’m using that right now for this paragraph of text! I’m just talking and the computer is automatically translating everything I say into the correct words in this document. Fortunately there are a variety of ways to make it move along more smoothly on your Mac. Whether you’re typing a letter to your sibling or composing a memo for work, the reality is that typing on a keyboard can be a very tedious process.
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