Working multi-platform operating systems Windows and Mac sometimes give you pain in the ass. You can do something easily on Mac but maybe not in Windows and vice versa. Overmore, I’ve to work in Windows machine with limited user previlege so I can’t install any software I want.

If you know what apps that I miss when working in Windows, I would gladly say it’s TextExpander. I feel I could do anything with with TextExpander on my Mac but when it comes to work with my lovely Windows machine, I feel odd. Luckily I found a similar apps, PhraseExpress.

I’m working with thousand files on the network storage at office. The pain is when I’ve to move from a folder to another folder and imagine when you’ve to dig into 4 nested folder to get the files, how many mouse clicks and scroll you need? So I want to make a snippets that expand into a directory address and simulating Enter key so I automatically jump to the destination folder. Luckily I found this blog post by Brett Terpstra.

I’ve been long reader of @ttscoff blog. I use some of his projects, nvAlt, PopClip extensions, SearchLinkand his crazy keybindings. So after reading his blog post, I fired up MS Excel and make the .csv files as suggested. The script ran very well and it took less than a 30 seconds to make almost 300 snippets on my CSV file, really a time saver.

I modified the script a bit to put the label for the snippets that would be created. On the .CSV file, put the label on the third row.

Here’s the modified version:

The original version of this script can be found on the @ttscoff’s blog. This is real time-saver. Thanks, Brett!