is there a keyboard APP

teenwolf · 5 Jul 2022 at 12:23

that remembers what you have typed before so you dont have to input it all again like the android has ?

Feek · 5 Jul 2022 at 12:35

teenwolf said:
that remembers what you have typed before so you dont have to input it all again like the android has ?

What, so something that continually monitors and stores everything you type?

Like a keystroke logger?

ChrisD. · 5 Jul 2022 at 12:39

teenwolf said:
that remembers what you have typed before so you dont have to input it all again like the android has ?

Like what? Address?

teenwolf · 5 Jul 2022 at 12:41

say i input my national insurance number into something then remembers it the next time so i dont have to type it all out again.

like once i do JJ the rest will pop up on the keyboard and i just click on it.

Feek · 5 Jul 2022 at 12:50

You can do that with text substitutions.

Settings / General / Keyboard / Text replacement

Although I find it does learn stuff over time, it offers me my postcode if I start typing it.

MacRS4 · 5 Jul 2022 at 17:41

I have a ton of auto stuff set up in Alfred.

For example ; en (no space) gives me the date 2022-07-05
; pn notes for my actions 2022-07-05 17:40:43:

Even stuff for usernames and codes that I use all the time, saves tons of time.

Feek · 5 Jul 2022 at 18:58

MacRS4 said:
I have a ton of auto stuff set up in Alfred.

I've always used the built in substitutions rather than the ones in Alfred because they're synced to my iPhone.

MacRS4 · 6 Jul 2022 at 01:11

That's never occurred to me, I just don't use a phone enough for that to be important. I tried TextExpander for a while but they switched to a subs and I got rid of it, never really went back.

Mind you, I used to often have an instance of Windows running just so I could open a text file with .LOG as line 1 so I could track stuff during the day. There's always a better way!