I fought against using all kinds of apps in the past, and one of them was Text Expander. I didn’t see the need until a year or so ago, and then once I figured out all of the hacks it could do, I realized it was a huge time saver.

For example, in one of my jobs I have to date each image in a specific format. Example: 2011_11_11-PicName.jpg. That sequence is just off from my way of thinking, and I always have a brain fart whenever I have to title an image, costing me time in the process. Today I typed in a hack that really saved me some time. It is:

%Y_%m_%d-

That gives me the current year, current month and current day in the correct format with underscores between each and a hyphen at the end. It’s saved me SO much time.

And as if I needed more proof, here’s my current stats.

Text Expander

Being more productive and saving time is just awesome.