Is There a Way to Add the Day of the Week to a Date?

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Typinator has a very sophisticated Quick-Search mechanism.

Categories can be globally available to search, or you can designate a label that's required to search that category.

Here are my AppleScript handlers (subroutines) with a category label of “h” and text search of “BBEdit”:

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  • I export these handler-calls from my AppleScript Libraries with a script that auto-numbers them.
  • The prefix (abbreviation) for the handler-calls I only use as a filter.
    • FLb.## means “Find Library” handler number ##.
    • GLb.## means “General Library” handler number ##.
    • NLb.## means “Net Library” handler number ##.

If I can't remember the handler name – but I know what library it's in I can use the library name in the filter to restrict to just that library and then start drilling down to what I'm looking for.

I have a good memory for abbreviations that I use regularly, and I use mnemonics to make them more memorable and also easy to figure out.

cs<space>	== Christopher Stone 		(must be lower case)
dt<space>	== 2023/01/27 19:11			(date/time)
ffd<space>	== 2023-01-27 › 19.12.46	(Finder Formated Date)
etc<space>	== etcetera 				(must be lower case)
etcc<space>	== Etcetera 				(extra c means capitalized)
km<space>	== Keyboard Maestro 		(must be lower case)
kmv<space>	== Keyboard Maestro 10.2	(script that computes the KM version)
mos<space>	== macOS	 				(must be lower case)
osv<space>	== macOS 10.14.6 			(script that computes the macOS version)

I punctuate anything that might need to be isolated from other strings:

c;<space>	== Chris 			(must be lower case)
pnt;<space>	== @Pending @Now 	(must be lower case)

A whole lot of my expansions are for use with Quick-Search only, so I don't have to remember much.

I have the TidBITS Auto-Correct library which is a pretty large collection.

I have all sorts of code snippets.

I use text-tags liberally when things are hard to find.

Etcetera.

How do I remember everything? The real answer is that I don't remember everything – I remember a great deal (especially those things I use regularly), and I've made things relatively easy to find if I forget.

The enormous utility of Quick-Search is the single biggest reason I switched to Typinator a decade or so ago.

Before that I used in order:

  • My own system driven by QuicKeys and AppleScript.
  • TypeIt4Me
  • TextExpander

I've also used a few different utilities on Windows, but it was 2009 (I think) when I last used a PC.

  • PhraseExpress was my favorite at the time (I think it's gotten ridiculously expensive since then.)
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