November 11, 2015

Using TextExpander to Display Date

The date display format for the United States and Europe are a bit different. TextExpander makes it super easy to display the right format when I need it. I just need to remember the correct abbreviation to use, and outputs the correct format that I need:

I have the following snippet setup:

AbbreviationSnippetPreview
.edate %Y-%1m-%e 2015-11-11
.udate %1m/%e/%y 11/11/2015
today%B %e, %YNovember 11, 2015

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In addition, I may want to reference noon time on Thursdays for the weekly team meetings. I always want to always reference the next available occurrence of the meeting. So on Monday, I want to reference this week's meeting and on Friday I'll want to see the date of the next meeting. I have this PHP Shell script set up:

#!/usr/bin/php
date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');
$everytime = date('F j, Y',strtotime('next Thursday'));
echo $everytime;
?>

There’s a lot of possibilities here. Hopefully this helps with some ideas with TextExpander. (For example, not everyone knows that you can use PHP in the Shell Script panel!)

About this Blog Series

I find TextExpander, by Smile on My Mac, to be an awesome productivity tool. This past winter, I posted some cool snippets that demonstrate the power of the application. Occasionally, I will post some new snippets that I think will be useful in anyone's TextExpander library.

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