MND/ALS – a Slow but Determined Thief

It’s easy to compartmentalise the progress of this disease into hands/no hands, speech/no speech etc. In fact the onset is progressive: the part that’s relevant to our conversations here are a slow robbing of finger, hand, then arm function. Whilst this is distressing it does at least allow us to plan, adapt and set up new tools and workflows for the dimmer end of the journey.

Text Expansion – Kill Keystrokes, Save Time

The leveraging of work done in the past gifts us time and effort saved at the keyboard. How many times do you find yourself producing repetitive runs of text? A simple example would be an email signature, another might be the standard letter, often taken care of with a template using Pages or Word. Wouldn’t it be a fine thing to summon either with a simple stroke key combination based around the task?