It quickly made its way into my core tool stack and has remained something I use all day, every day. I first discovered TextExpander in 2018 while listening to Seth Godin on the Tim Ferriss Show. But that’s not the only reason it’s fantastic. Getting your team to use it will save weeks of time. This snippet was first described here, then improved to handle more Flickr pages here.Using TextExpander will save you hours of time. It prints the URL of the smaller medium-sized version (the one that’s 500 pixels wide if landscape) of the Flickr photo in frontmost tab of the frontmost browser window. This is a shell script snippet written in Python/appscript. I use the abbreviation flickr to invoke it. It prints the “flic.kr” shortened URL for the Flickr photo in the frontmost tab of the frontmost browser window. I often put shortened URLs in parentheses in tweets, and I found myself-because TextExpander insisted on it-invoking surl and then going back to put in the parentheses. This snippet was born out of frustration. I use the abbreviation ( surl to invoke it. The escapeurl script, included in the repository, is called by snippet to do the encoding. It uses the Metamark shortening API, which requires special characters in the input URL to be encoded. This is an AppleScript snippet that prints the shortened URL of the frontmost tab of the frontmost browser window in parentheses. These snippets were first described here. I use the abbreviations 1surl through 6surl to invoke them. These are AppleScript snippets that print the shortened URLs of the nth tab, counting from the left, of the frontmost browser window. Like furl this was first written for TypeIt4Me and described here, then generalized to work with Chrome and Safari here. I use the abbreviation surl to invoke it. This is an AppleScript snippet that prints the shortened URL of the frontmost tab of the frontmost browser window (“surl” = “shortened URL”). These expansions of furl were first described here and generalized to work with Chrome and Safari here. I use the abbreviations 1url through 6url to invoke them. These are AppleScript snippets that print the URL of the nth tab, counting from the left, of the frontmost browser window. I carried it along when I switched to TextExpander, then generalized it to handle both Chrome and Safari here. The original version of this snippet (written for TypeIt4Me) is described here. I use the abbreviation furl to invoke it. This is an AppleScript snippet that prints the URL of the frontmost tab of the frontmost browser window (“furl” = “front URL”).
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