Text expander and clipboard enhancer tools

Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 3, 2013 at 05:32 PM

PhraseExpress wrote:
>Popups distract you whenever you enter the 2nd letter of a word. You
>additionally get distracted by flashing popup updates with every
>additional character you type.
>It gets ugly once your library grows larger. Video demo with a 22,000
>words library:
>http://youtu.be/PpH23B_qqso

Thanks for the demonstration.

1) I didn’t have any problems with importing with PhraseExpander so far, so I’m not sure what’s happening in your example.

2) But, I’m using PhraseExpander’s SmartComplete feature very differently from your example. I create my own phrases incrementally and strategically. I only need very specific frequently used terms. Currently I have about 800 phrases.

3) I don’t find the popup distracting or ugly. The whole reason I’m using it because I find it useful.

4) Your video played too quickly, so I wasn’t able to figure out your algorithm, but it seems to work quite differently from PhraseExpander’s, as there seem to be a lot of not-so-relevant matches. The more highly relevant the matches are towards the top of the popup, the more useful it becomes.

>Instead of a “Smart”Complete feature we developed the
>“text prediction feature”:
>http://www.phraseexpress.com/autocomplete.htm
> >PhraseExpress listens how you use it: What you type, how often you type
>it, which suggestions you dismiss, which you accept and it prioritizes
>the suggestions accordingly. Additionally, it also takes into account
>how many characters each suggestion may save you to type. It also can be
>trained with stuff already written to get instant results.

Thanks, sounds like an interesting feature. But the big difference that comes across between your approach and PhraseExpander’s approach is that you seem to want to predict what I want to write, while PhraseExpander allows me to instruct the software what I want it to offer to me, how I want it and when I want it.

>If you want to check out our take on “Smart”Complete with
>some much more advanced extras, please drop us a mail:
>http://contact.phraseexpress.com

Thanks, I might take up your offer when I have a bit more time.