January 2022 • Macworld 59competency around input methods,
and intersects and overlaps with
parts of the features of other common
automation and workflow utilities.
I would replace TextExpander with
BetterTouchTool, but I sometimes
have a choice between the two for a
given purpose.
If it seems daunting to build
extensive trigger/action sets from
scratch for software you want
to augment, an active user base
at community.folivora.ai posts
exported settings that can be
downloaded and imported into your
copy with a double-click.
The app’s latest release, 3.600,
brings it into full macOS 12 Monterey
compatibility, including deep
integration
with macOS
Shortcuts. For
$9 (around
£6.75), you get
two years of
updates and
a permanent
license to the
last version
released in
that period.
A lifetime of
updates is
$21 (around
£15.75). The app is also available
through a Setapp subscription (fave.
co/3FGYtHn).
BetterTouchTool is inexpensive
enough to use for a handful of gesture
or input additions, but powerful
enough to build an entire universe
of triggers and actions to customize
macOS to the finest degree you could
possibly desire. Glenn FleishmanAn active community uploads their own sets of BetterTouchTool
triggers and actions, which you can add with a double-click.