Shorthand

Shorthand is a text expander. Type a short abbreviation such as ;addr or ;ty in any program and it is replaced at once with a longer piece of text you saved in advance: an address, an email reply, today's date, a block of code.

What it does

Works wherever you type: email, chat, browsers, Word, editors, terminals.
Expands the moment the abbreviation is finished, or only after a space, Tab, Enter or punctuation. Your choice for each snippet.
Plain text, or formatted text with bold, links and lists.
"Match my capitalisation": ;ty gives "thank you", ;Ty gives "Thank you".
Snippets can be limited to certain programs, or kept out of them.
Placeholders: the date and time in any format, with arithmetic such as "today + 7 days" and "next Monday"; what is on the clipboard; where the cursor should end up; another snippet inside this one; key presses such as Tab and Enter for filling forms.
Fill-in fields: a small form asks for the name, the order number, a choice from a list or an optional paragraph before the snippet goes in.
Backspace or Ctrl+Z straight after an expansion puts the abbreviation back.
A search popup on a shortcut, for the snippets whose abbreviation you have forgotten, and a shortcut that turns the selected text into a new snippet.
Warns you when a new abbreviation clashes with another, is the start of another, or is an ordinary word.
Groups, import and export, import from CSV, and a usage page that estimates the keystrokes and time saved.
Light and dark mode. Runs quietly from the notification area.

Your typing stays yours

Shorthand has to see the keys you press to notice an abbreviation. It is not a keylogger and never behaves like one.
What you type exists only in a small buffer in memory, the last few characters, and is wiped whenever you click, switch window or press Esc.
Nothing you type is written to disk, logged or sent anywhere. Your snippets are stored on your PC only: no cloud, no sync, no telemetry. The only times it uses the internet are to check its licence and to look for updates.
An exclusion list of programs where it does nothing at all, already filled in with common password managers and remote-desktop and virtual-machine windows. Add any program you like.
Pause it at any time from its icon or with a shortcut.

Good to know

It cannot expand inside programs that run as administrator, because Windows blocks that. Some games and secure password boxes block it as well.
Abbreviations are recognised from ordinary keyboard layouts, including Indian-language layouts such as Devanagari INSCRIPT, but not from text while an input method is composing it.
Long and formatted snippets are pasted in; whatever was on your clipboard is put back straight after.
It installs for your user account only and never asks for administrator rights.
Free to try for 14 days with every feature. After that Shorthand needs a licence to keep working: without one it stops watching the keyboard and opens only a screen that asks for a licence key. Your snippets are kept, and you can still export them to a file.

One-time purchase for one PC. Includes every version released in the following 12 months; the version you have keeps working after that.

What it does

Works wherever you type: email, chat, browsers, Word, editors, terminals.
Expands the moment the abbreviation is finished, or only after a space, Tab, Enter or punctuation. Your choice for each snippet.
Plain text, or formatted text with bold, links and lists.
"Match my capitalisation": ;ty gives "thank you", ;Ty gives "Thank you".
Snippets can be limited to certain programs, or kept out of them.
Placeholders: the date and time in any format, with arithmetic such as "today + 7 days" and "next Monday"; what is on the clipboard; where the cursor should end up; another snippet inside this one; key presses such as Tab and Enter for filling forms.
Fill-in fields: a small form asks for the name, the order number, a choice from a list or an optional paragraph before the snippet goes in.
Backspace or Ctrl+Z straight after an expansion puts the abbreviation back.
A search popup on a shortcut, for the snippets whose abbreviation you have forgotten, and a shortcut that turns the selected text into a new snippet.
Warns you when a new abbreviation clashes with another, is the start of another, or is an ordinary word.
Groups, import and export, import from CSV, and a usage page that estimates the keystrokes and time saved.
Light and dark mode. Runs quietly from the notification area.

Your typing stays yours

Shorthand has to see the keys you press to notice an abbreviation. It is not a keylogger and never behaves like one.
What you type exists only in a small buffer in memory, the last few characters, and is wiped whenever you click, switch window or press Esc.
Nothing you type is written to disk, logged or sent anywhere. Your snippets are stored on your PC only: no cloud, no sync, no telemetry. The only times it uses the internet are to check its licence and to look for updates.
An exclusion list of programs where it does nothing at all, already filled in with common password managers and remote-desktop and virtual-machine windows. Add any program you like.
Pause it at any time from its icon or with a shortcut.

Good to know

It cannot expand inside programs that run as administrator, because Windows blocks that. Some games and secure password boxes block it as well.
Abbreviations are recognised from ordinary keyboard layouts, including Indian-language layouts such as Devanagari INSCRIPT, but not from text while an input method is composing it.
Long and formatted snippets are pasted in; whatever was on your clipboard is put back straight after.
It installs for your user account only and never asks for administrator rights.
Free to try for 14 days with every feature. After that Shorthand needs a licence to keep working: without one it stops watching the keyboard and opens only a screen that asks for a licence key. Your snippets are kept, and you can still export them to a file.

One-time purchase for one PC. Includes every version released in the following 12 months; the version you have keeps working after that.

Type a few letters, get the whole text. In any program.

What it does

Your typing stays yours

Good to know

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Shorthand

Type a few letters, get the whole text. In any program.

What it does

Your typing stays yours

Good to know

A closer look.

Need somethinglike this built?