Smile software libraries Smile has quite a lot of examples to use with TextExpander. You can find them here. Some more libraries: Brett Terpstra Here is a mirror of Brett Terpstra’s impressive TextExpander snippet library (original and explanation here): CSS3 iOSMarkdown Tools Random%20Lipsums Lipsums Filesystem Characters
TextExpander can import remote libraries. This makes it possible to share your snippets, and look at all the cool snippets other people use, straight from within TextExpander. It is very simple to do this. To add a library: Copy the link of the library (1.) Open TextExpander Choose Add group from URL… (or ⌘L) (2.) Paste the link (3.) The library will be added to the end of your libraries (4.), under the name the provider used (5.), but you can change that if you want. It is possible to auto-update the library (6.). This page has a list of public TextExpander libraries. (if you know more, please leave them in the comments!) Solving conflicts Especially if you add other peoples libraries, you might end up with conflicting abbreviations. The conflicting abbreviations will show up in orange. The first abbreviation will take precedence, which might not be what you need. The simplest way to solve a conflict, is renaming the [...]
TextExpander is only as powerful as the snippets you put in it. A great place to start for inspiration or just plain copying is Brett Terpstra’s repository. You will find some simple things, characters as ⌘, ⌥, ⇧, etc. Also several Lipsums, filler-text. Next to that there is some css3 stuff, shortcuts for transitions, shadows, rounded corners, etc. These are advanced TextExpander snippets (at least some of them), and great examples how to use ruby and shell-snippets to go way beyond your simple text replacement. It is a great resource, and you might put him in your RSS reader as well. Links The repository Several great posts about TextExpander