"The Best Text Expansion App" - LifeHacker
* OS X 10.9+ users: please drag&drop aText.app into Accessibility list (in System Preferences \ Privacy) before using this app.
aText accelerates your typing by replacing abbreviations with frequently used phrases you define.
E.g. make an abbreviation “myname” to insert your name “First Middle Last” in any application.
With aText you can easily avoid typing the same thing over and over.
Features:
• Insert images and formatted text.
• Capitalize new sentences. Correct double capitals.
• Insert the current date and time in any format. Insert day in the future or the past, for example: next Sunday, previous Monday.
• Embed clipboard content in snippet, embed another snippet, use editable fields in snippet, send any key (such as Esc, Tab, Enter, arrow keys, etc).
• Reposition the cursor in the expanded snippet.
• Invoke AppleScripts and Shell Scripts.
• Built-in snippets for misspelling correcting, HTML and JavaScript coding.
• Import data from TextExpander, TypeIt4Me, SpellCatcherX, CSV file.
• Sync via iCloud/Dropbox/Google Drive/SkyDrive.
Added option to disable Auto-Correction or snippet group in specific input methods.
Added ability to add note to snippet.
Improved "wildcard search" usability.
