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and don't forget the small things...

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and don't forget the small things...

My sig has been “xxx (return) c” since I was doing it on lined paper in 1968.

Creating a TextExpander snippet that removes the third “x” and the return makes the process so much easier and more pleasant, and given the amount of correspondence I have, will probably add 1.5 years to my life.

Ditto my tel #, the word “with” (now w/), and a bunch of MailTags like “receipts”, “taxes2007”, “registrations”, etc.

It’s kind of the McDonald’s theory of efficiency—a second here, a nanosecond there…

TextExpander 2: .Mac syncing and much more By: Merlin Mann (14 replies) October 17, 2007 - 9:02am
 
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