⌘ Hot snippet action with Snippety

Snippety is a tool I stumbled across by accident, and it’s a little gem. I don’t know why I didn’t find it sooner. Snippety performs simple tasks like converting text from upper to lower to proper (title) case. It can store code fragments. It can store long blocks of text. While that sounds like SnippetsLab and TypeIt4Me, there is a neat little trick that makes Snippety a worthwhile tool in the toolbox. It can prompt for input, then perform text substitution. This falls right inline with form letters, variable substitution in code, and generating custom text within a template. For example, Snippety can prompt for a name and include that name in your text fragment. Snippety can offer a custom dropdown, such as products, then use that selection in the output text. It can also drop in the date and grab the clipboard content. It combines some of the features of SnippetsLab, with TypeIt4Me, and TextSoap, sprinkling in a dash […]