Creating and managing snippets
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- Click + New in the toolbar.
- Give it a title (required) and a body (what gets pasted).
- Optionally add an abbreviation, tags, collections, a keyboard shortcut, and a description (notes for yourself; never pasted).
- Press Save once for a new snippet. From then on it saves itself as you type, and the shortcut field appears.
- Drag and drop a snippet onto a sidebar folder to move it, or right-click and use Move To.
Right-click actions
Copy body · Copy link (file path) · Duplicate · Show in Finder · Move to collection · Delete.
Several at once
Hover a snippet and a checkbox appears over its icon. Tick one and every row gets a box, and a bar at the top of the list shows how many you've picked. From the bar you can move them all to a collection, add a tag to all of them, or delete them.
- While anything is ticked, a click on a row ticks it instead of opening it.
- ⇧-click ticks everything between two rows. ⇧-click with nothing ticked starts from the snippet that's open.
- ⌘A ticks every snippet in the list, Esc clears the ticks, and ⌘⌫ deletes the ticked ones after asking.
- A deleted snippet goes to the Trash, so you can get it back from there. A few drives have no Trash, such as some network and external drives. There, TypeFire asks once whether to delete for good instead.
Documentation for TypeFire 6.1.0. Updated 2026-10-05.