What is the crowd's opinion of aText?

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I copped black.

Let me tell you how I copped and how I copped so quickly.

I'm at school (college) and i know that my college has shitty wifi so, I went to an area with good cellphone reception and set up a hotspot. i closed out every other tab except a few KTT and this sub.

The only early link you need is: http://www.supremenewyork.com/shop/all/shoes

I was refreshing since 10:58 so, when they dropped I was there and on it super quick.

I use a tool called aText: http://www.trankynam.com/atext/ where if i type a shortcut it will automatically fill in my card info + i have Chrome autofill if that fails. My command is "CCARD" lower case because I don't want to give y'all my card info.

Autofill had in most of my data except the state and expiration date and the rest was history.

https://imgur.com/BhO9431 (devastationz is my reddit name)

You probably want Alfred. It's awesome, but I don't know how to explain it very well to a Windows expat because I don't think there's much of an equivalent. But I couldn't live without it.

If your'e the sort of person who uses a coding editor, SublimeText or Atom are probably the ones you want at this point. The previous king, TextMate, is kind of long in the tooth.

Get an external drive and use Time Machine religiously. It's amazing and can save your life, but only if you use it.

You may or may not want to use Fantastical instead of the built-in calendar, depending on the complexity of your life.

People love TextExpander, but they just went to subscription-only. I'm in the process of moving to aText, which is a nearly-identical tool that's $5 once, not $5 a month.

Windows in Bootcamp is interesting, but probably not required unless you REALLY need to let Windows have access to the bare metal. Virtualization is FAR more flexible -- you get to run both systems at once, you don't have to carve off a fixed amount of your hard drive to Windows, you get nearly native performance, and backing up your whole Windows install is trivial. Look into VMWare Fusion or Parallels.

Few ideas: - If you’re already circulating and commenting on work as it’s happening, walk around with a (custom) stamp and stamp papers that have met expectations. Come grading time, count up stamps (or have peers count stamps and spot check). - If you’re digital, and feedback is repetitive, use a text expander like aText . For example, if I type “@NoEv”, aText will replace it with a canned paragraph about how the paper isn’t using evidence to support a claim and a few suggestions for how to find and cite evidence in the source(s). - Also digital: Google form, flubaroo plugin, and mail merge. Bonus: you can see who has viewed feedback and who has responded.

On a more general note, if the feedback isn’t in person as the work is happening, or within a couple days of completion, then it’s not going to do much for (most) students. Give anything submitted and vaguely on topic ~50% of points by default and spot check a couple random things to distinguish satisfactory from exceptional. Reading every word written by every student isn’t necessary.

More ideas in the book grade smarter not harder.

Pretty cool, but I wish TextExpander wasn't so damn expensive. I can do pretty much everything TextExpander does with aText, for $4.99. Snippet Suggestions are definitely not worth $40. Just my opinion, of course.

Take a look into text expanding software utility. That category of software allows you to type a sequence of text and have it automatically expand / change it to a predefined block of text. Basically it's like keyboard shortcuts on an iPhone.

https://smilesoftware.com/TextExpander/index.html http://www.trankynam.com/atext/

I found your post while searching for the same thing, so far I've not had any luck. I'm considering using a regular Text Expansion app.

Smile Software has one called TextExpander, though it's pretty expensive https://smilesoftware.com/TextExpander/index.html

I currently use aText for more traditional text expansion needs, and I think I'll try it to duplicate canned responses. It's $5 and works fairly well http://www.trankynam.com/atext/

There are also free ones out there