Importing from other apps

Bring your snippets over from another text expander in a few clicks instead of retyping them one by one.

+ New in the toolbar has importers for:

• TextExpander (CSV export from Import/Export → Export in their web app)
• aText (CSV)
• Apple Text Replacements: in System Settings → Keyboard → Text Replacements, select the ones you want (⌘A for all), drag them to the Desktop, then pick that file
• Browser extension package (JSON from the TypeFire Chrome extension)

Imports show a preview, with each abbreviation and the text it types, and let you pick the destination collection first. Header rows are detected and skipped.

A CSV of your own works too, through the aText importer: the abbreviation in the first column, the text in the second, and an optional name in a third (without one, the name is the abbreviation). Commas or semicolons both work, so a file saved from Excel in any language is fine, and so are accented letters and line breaks inside quotes.

What transfers: abbreviations, bodies (plain stays plain, HTML becomes rich text), and labels as titles.

What does not: fill-in fields (%fill:...%), date macros (%Y, %m) and nested references. Use TypeFire's own tokens instead.