Absolutely can't live without it.

I started using it because I had a Mac, which doesn’t have as extensive clipboard functionality as a PC. It allows you to create snippets of text that magically expand when you enter the preset abbreviation (I think everyone uses ‘w/’ to mean ‘with’ at some point in their lives.) The applications for in-house lawyers are myriad – how many times do you find yourself typing  ‘[My company], company registration number [xxxxx], a company incorporated and registered in [England and Wales], having its registered address at [address]’ – or copying it from somewhere else? With TextExpander you set a ‘snippet’ and an abbreviation like ‘myco’, and then you just need to type ‘myco’ for the whole lot to pop up 🪄 (BTW, for me, that’s ‘em/wand’ 😉). You can instal a keyboard onto your phone that uses the same abbreviations.

It does other things, like date and time calculations and fill-ins, for when you’re feeling flash.

If your business buys into the tool, you can use it as a poor man’s clause bank as you can share snippets amongst your team.

All from $3.33 USD per user per month. Bless it and all who created it.