Canned responses

Sometimes we get the same question over and over again, and we're a university, so sometimes the department in question won't play along to fix the opaqueness of their process to solve the root problem. So we're stuck replying the same thing many times a day.

If we could create canned responses and then use bang-commands like instead of typing in:

Here's a help article on how to register with CMS PeopleSoft: http......

we could instead say:

!respond cmsregister

Olark has some additional suggestions on our Blog at http://www.olark.com/blog/2009/autocomplete-your-life/

For Mac, we recommend TextExpander (this is what we use ourselves)
http://smilesoftware.com/TextExpander/

For Windows, we've heard good things about Breevy
http://www.16software.com/breevy/

For Linux, we recommend AutoKey
http://lifehacker.com/5310976/autokey-does-customized-text-replacement-for-linux
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