Why did I stop using it? The main reason was that it started interfering with my AutoHotkey scripts I’ve been using in conjunction with ConnectedText, my main tool. I used it almost on a daily basis for about nine months, and stopped using it about a month ago. It just got too annoying, and I uninstalled it soon thereafter.Īs I kept searching, I came across the free WordExpander, which did actually do what I wanted to accomplish, and it seemed fairly easy to use, even though it did not look as polished a product as some of the others I looked at. It seems that being a student puts you in this second category, as I started getting some nagging screens saying that I was a professional user. First, I checked out PhraseExpress, which claims to offer its software for free to personal users, but with some kind of a tool to detect if one is a professional user. Naturally, I gravitated towards freely available options. In fact, it seems to be considered a premium feature, mostly included in expensive professional editions, which sometimes are beyond a student’s budget. It turned out that that particular feature was not very common. ![]() The “Eas圜omplete” feature in WordExpander After entering the first few letters of a frequently-used word, I wanted some kind of a pop-up list to show up right next to the cursor, from which I could quickly select the word with up and down arrows, hit Tab, and have the word automatically inserted. I narrowed down my requirements to one single, simple feature. I downloaded a few, tested them quickly, and if they looked too complicated or wrong for the job, I promptly uninstalled them. ![]() ![]() I am not a touch-typist, so not having to retype long words with complicated spelling is a godsend.īeing the busy PhD student that I am, I didn’t have either the patience or the time to spend a huge amount of time evaluating these software. If you haven’t used such a software before, the main point of them is to speed up typing, by being able to call up frequently used words from a saved list by just typing a shortcut. In my tutorials on how I use ConnectedText for qualitative data analysis, I mentioned that-following a suggestion from a reader-I had adopted an application for text expansion during the coding process.
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