[red_hare]

The author's ultimate solution of "use OSX/iOS shortcuts for every word to speed up your typing" is pretty wild.

I could imagine myself using this method when I think about the _tens of minutes_ of my life I've probably saved now by just making "@@" a shortcut for my email address.

Unfortunately, like Dvorak, which the author also proposes, it has the "doesn't work on my friend's computer" problem. Although, maybe a little easier to untrain your fingers from than Dvorak...

[Wowfunhappy]

More annoying for me is that it has the "doesn't work in certain apps" problem. Firefox, for instance, blatantly ignores macOS's text replacement shortcuts.

[vulcan01]

Yea, this was annoying for me as well. I found Espanso (open-source), which seems to work on all the apps I've tried:

https://espanso.org/

Not affiliated, just a happy user.

[stevage]

>"doesn't work on my friend's computer" problem

As I've gotten older, I find this situation almost never comes up. Occasionally in some workplaces you are temporarily using someone else's computer. In which case, you either fall back to QWERTY, or take the 60 seconds to add Dvorak to their machine.

[carabiner]

How often are you using your friend's computer?

[svachalek]

I've heretofore used them for common terms in my work/hobby and they can be quite helpful. This is really next level though. I think I'm gonna try adding a few common everyday phrases on a weekly basis and see how it works out.