Text expansion in Obsidian with Espanso
I've gotten a few questions asking me how I do text expansion in Obsidian, because there are a lot of text expander plugins out there. The truth, though, is that I don't use any of them. Instead, I use a separate, free, open-source app called Espanso to define text triggers and replace them with certain phrases. One of the best things about Espanso is that it stores all configuration in plain text files.
// RESOURCES MENTIONED
Espanso: https://espanso.org/
Donate to Federico Terzi for Espanso: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr...
// TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:41 What is Espanso?
02:12 Downloading and setting up Espanso
04:09 1. Basic match
05:02 My social links
06:33 Affiliate links
08:04 Obsidian-specific shortcuts
10:22 Canned responses
11:34 2. Extensions
12:51 3. Forms
13:13 4. Regex triggers
16:17 Text expansion in Obsidian
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