text shortcuts

[laudern]

Is there a way to create text shortcuts in os x, much the same way you can do so in iOS 6?

For example instead of typing your email address you can just type elm and auto correct will change that to your email address?

 

[WrrN]

This is not quite what you were describing, but achieves the same result ... I've used ClipMenu for years and couldn't live w/o it: http://www.clipmenu.com/

I keep a clipboard history of 75 items and also have "snippets" saved for easy pasting of commonly used phrases. You can assign a keyboard shortcut to pop up a context menu next to your cursor. Pretty handy.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Maybe the following text expanding / text macro applications* can help:

• Mac OS X Feature: System-Wide Text Substitution (available since Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard)
• TextExpander (34.95 USD - synchs between Macs via Dropbox)
• TypeIt4Me (13.99 USD and upwards)
• Typinator (24.99 €)
• Kissphrase (free)
• QuicKeys (59.95 USD)
• aText (5 USD)
• xType (free)
• yType (2.99 USD)

*

Such applications are text replacement utilities to insert blocks of text into other applications by simply typing a few user defined keystrokes. Anytime a user defined keystroke combination is typed, it is substituted with the replacement text.
Example: you type "email1" and that text expands to "thisismyemailaddress@hotmail.xxx".
It might not work with passwords though.