If you spend a large part of your day communicating by email you probably have an automated signature at the end of each mail so people can easily contact you.
With programmes like Typinator available for the Mac you can save even more time by creating keystrokes to insert text you frequently use such as salutations, endings and even more detailed information like product details.
For example, if someone asks me for a quote or an overview of my translation rates I hit a particular keystroke to insert the appropriate information rather than retyping it again and again.
Of course, I could just copy and paste from an earlier sent mail; however, I found that it takes more time to track down a mail than remember a keystroke.
Overcome linguistic problems
Typinator is also excellent if you’re a non-native speaker of, say, English and need to use the same phrases again and again but don’t always remember them.
If you, say, forget that there’s a comma after “Dear Jon,” you can set Typinator to insert “Dear –,” so all you have to type is the name. That way the programme can save you time and brainpower.
I’m not linked to Typinator in anyway; I’m just a happy customer who has discovered how this little gem of a product has made my email productivity (and many other writing tasks) so much easier.
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