Text expander and clipboard enhancer tools

Posted by jimspoon
Dec 6, 2012 at 09:35 PM

Just for summary purposes, I went through this thread and made notes of the utilities that had been mentioned - I’ll just paste my notes here for reference -

autotext
phraseexpander
wordexpander
textexpander
macroexpress
autohotkey
phraseexpress
breevy

clipboard utility
clipmate
ditto
clipcache pro
flycut (Mac?)
simidude (shared clipboard)

text cleanup
notetab light
clipcache pro
messagecleaner

I have been using PhraseExpress free for autotext for a long time, but on one of my computers, it just stops working frequently, and I have to shut it down and restart it - annoying. So I wanted to see what alternatives were out there for Windows.

Before PhraseExpress, I used Robotype (PC Mag utility) for a long time, but had glitches with it too, which made me switch to PhraseExpress.

If I could find one of these that “just works” very reliably on my desktop and laptop, I’d be sold.

jim