
But you can also create macros to make fragments more dynamic, for example with variables, and the fragments themselves can have different quality characteristics: plain text, rich text, with images.
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The key features of Rocket Typist are numerous: the software as we have seen when we write an abbreviation “expands” it in the relative fragment.

I can write it once, leaving the address and name of the recipient in the form of variables that the fragment then “autocompletes”, thus personalizing the text itself that is pasted. Take the latter case: say you have to write a business letter to ten people. In short, many uses up to those that can be automatically customized: date and time, names and contact details that can be inserted as variables in the text.
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For a business letter writer this can mean simplifying the writing of some paragraphs: common phrases such as “Hello how are you”, or signatures with or without images (And you can create alternative signatures, usable anywhere, in any e-mail client and without having to reconfigure them), address and other contact details, but also difficult-to-remember technical terms, words we always get wrong, code snippets for developers who enter it multiple times.
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(the one under test) has various other features that we are going to see, both in the “normal” and in the pro version. Otherwise, a simple sheet of text always open would be enough to copy and then paste in the target document of the chosen phrases (less practical but free).

Dear XY, comma and return, RRT and Rocket Typist grabs from the memory a paragraph of text previously written and pastes it where the cursor is (“with this letter I remind you that” etc etc), and so on until ending in a few seconds a letter that would require many more.Īttention, however, because it does not end there. Just save two or three snippets with paragraphs that are always repeated to be able to speed up writing as much as possible.

In fact, Rock Typist deals with a very particular job, which on the Mac is particularly useful: memorizing fragments of text, “snippets” and expanding them on request when we find ourselves typing the combination of letters assigned to them.Īn example clarifies better: let's say that in our work we often have to write very similar emails to customers. Certainly not Rocket Typist, a small and very useful utility that we tried to see instead a much more practical functionality and that we consider well implemented. But apart from the execrable (and execrable) practice of copying and pasting press releases, there is no app that allows this. Home Reviews, It would be nice for the journalist if it were enough to type a few letters e! Zap !, the blank page is populated by the body of the article.
