Get-It-Done Guy explains the art of text expansion on smartphones.
Recently I extolled the virtues of text expansion in your word processor, email program, and most common desktop applications. For full details, see my article and Get-it-Done Guy episode here. What I didn't mention was smartphones, because I didn't think text expansion was possible. But it is! Now I can have "GIDG" expand directly into “Get-it-Done Guy” even on my phone.
Here’s how to do it:
For Blackberry users – Go to Options > AutoText and enter text expansions.
For iPhone/iPod users running iOS 5 – Go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Shortcuts.
For Android users – Text expansions don’t come built-in, but you can download the App "Smart Keyboard PRO" and it will let you set up text expansions easily. There's a free trial version called "Smart Keyboard Trial."
Type less, write more, and have a great new year!
About the Author
Stever Robbins was the host of the podcast Get-it-Done Guy from 2007 to 2019. He is a graduate of W. Edward Deming’s Total Quality Management training program and a Certified Master Trainer Elite of NLP. He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BS in Computer Sciences from MIT.
