aText VS Pocket

aText Reviews

1. StanBright    

   Founder at SaaSHub | over 4 years ago
   Indispensable productivity tool

   I've been using aText for quite some time, and it's been amazing. If you are typing a lot, I'm sure you would be able to optimize your work tremendously. You can have abbreviations for your closing email phrases, URLs, and whatever can come to your mind.

   Also, I'd suggest to think of a trigger character and use it at the beginning of all abbreviations. That way you will avoid collisions. I'm using a comma. For example, these are some of my abbreviations:

   • ,br => "Best regards, Stan"
   • ,sh-u => "https://www.saashub.com" (SaaSHub URL)

   You get the idea. Once you get used to the app, it will save you a lot of time and typing.

Pocket Reviews

aText mentions (2)

• Add suites (playing cards)

  I think I have a solution for you. I use an app called aText (there are many similar, but this one's my favorite) on my Mac and my PC to make my own shortcuts for phrases and symbols, like this. Source: 10 months ago

• How to change the date format?

  Not quite the answer you're looking for, but I use aText, so I can make my own date format, and my own shortcut, and it can be universal — and I can make all kinds of shortcuts for all kinds of other things, like symbols, emojis, and phrases. This way, I never have to worry about apps that don't have a YYYY-MM-DD option. :). Source: 11 months ago

Pocket mentions (56)

• Any URL/Website hoarders?

  I find Pocket useful for: https://getpocket.com/en/. Source: 12 months ago

• How to deal with 30,000+ bookmarks? Software suggestions?

  I use the Pocket extension for Chrome. You can tag every one to organize them. They have import options and some paid features that could help you sort of dead links and other things. https://getpocket.com/en/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Saving links for later app?

  I do use Pocket for this: https://getpocket.com/en/ works great. I‘m not sure about the notes though, have never really tried that. It supports tags, that how I usually categorize my links. Source: about 1 year ago

• Is there a Linkedin "saved post" solution?

  There is an app called Pocket, also a Chrome extension which allows you to saves links and you can tag them to organise. If you use this on mobile, use the ‘share via’ on LinkedIn and you save to Pocket. That’s how I do it! Hope that helps. Source: about 1 year ago

• Anti-FOMO

  Leverage RSS feeds, and/or pocket, and/or many other credible alternatives to keep things organized and save time. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago