Comments on: Increase your typing speed with an autocompleter http://www.academicproductivity.com/2007/increase-your-typing-speed-with-an-autocompleter/ A survival guide for the 21st century researcher Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:37:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Academic Productivity » Speed up your writing with an autocompleter: Comfort typing http://www.academicproductivity.com/2007/increase-your-typing-speed-with-an-autocompleter/comment-page-1/#comment-70985 Academic Productivity » Speed up your writing with an autocompleter: Comfort typing Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:38:06 +0000 http://www.academicproductivity.com/blog/2007/increase-your-typing-speed-with-an-autocompleter/#comment-70985 [...] May, 2007, we had a post on using an autocompleter to improve writing speed/save keystrokes. I recommended intellicomplete, even though it was abandonware even [...] [...] May, 2007, we had a post on using an autocompleter to improve writing speed/save keystrokes. I recommended intellicomplete, even though it was abandonware even [...]

]]> By: Jakob http://www.academicproductivity.com/2007/increase-your-typing-speed-with-an-autocompleter/comment-page-1/#comment-2065 Jakob Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:59:11 +0000 http://www.academicproductivity.com/blog/2007/increase-your-typing-speed-with-an-autocompleter/#comment-2065 This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title . Thanks for informative article This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title . Thanks for informative article

]]> By: Adrian Zai http://www.academicproductivity.com/2007/increase-your-typing-speed-with-an-autocompleter/comment-page-1/#comment-1951 Adrian Zai Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:39:02 +0000 http://www.academicproductivity.com/blog/2007/increase-your-typing-speed-with-an-autocompleter/#comment-1951 This is interesting. I've never thought about using an autocompleter to write. I would like to give it a try. Does an equivalent software exists Macs? Great blog by the way! I've already picked up quite a few tips... This is interesting. I’ve never thought about using an autocompleter to write. I would like to give it a try. Does an equivalent software exists Macs?

Great blog by the way! I’ve already picked up quite a few tips…

]]> By: Matthew Cornell http://www.academicproductivity.com/2007/increase-your-typing-speed-with-an-autocompleter/comment-page-1/#comment-1353 Matthew Cornell Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:12:36 +0000 http://www.academicproductivity.com/blog/2007/increase-your-typing-speed-with-an-autocompleter/#comment-1353 Thanks for the review and suggestions. I really need the macro-expander functionality to reduce keystrokes. A while ago a company announced a *keyboard* that would do this. I wrote them at the time, but heard nothing back. I've always argued that this type of functionality needs to be in the OS - as it is, separate apps have to do this - firefox, word, etc. Appreciate the blog! Thanks for the review and suggestions. I really need the macro-expander functionality to reduce keystrokes. A while ago a company announced a *keyboard* that would do this. I wrote them at the time, but heard nothing back. I’ve always argued that this type of functionality needs to be in the OS – as it is, separate apps have to do this – firefox, word, etc.

Appreciate the blog!

]]> By: jose http://www.academicproductivity.com/2007/increase-your-typing-speed-with-an-autocompleter/comment-page-1/#comment-808 jose Mon, 07 May 2007 16:56:47 +0000 http://www.academicproductivity.com/blog/2007/increase-your-typing-speed-with-an-autocompleter/#comment-808 As an autohotkey lover, I had a phase in which I used it with a large collection of acronyms, i.e. ttyl = talk to you later. I didn't know about this universal autocorrect. I think they are part of two different categories of software though. Maybe three: mispelling correction is the other one. The first category is the text expander, that has a limited amount of Acronym and abbreviation dictionaries. Often times they are 'spoonfed' by the user. I think the main advantage of these is that you can compress large sentences into a few keystrokes. Good for mail and chat, but not really for writing. The second category is the autocompleter per se: this grabs usage statistics and guesses what you write about. No spoon-feeding. All words are potential suggestions, not only the acronyms you typed in. Some text editors, like vim, actually use words in the same file/other open files to guess better what you really want (not intellicomplete though). This is what I consider gets you the best time savings. As an autohotkey lover, I had a phase in which I used it with a large collection of acronyms, i.e. ttyl = talk to you later. I didn’t know about this universal autocorrect.

I think they are part of two different categories of software though. Maybe three: mispelling correction is the other one.

The first category is the text expander, that has a limited amount of Acronym and abbreviation dictionaries. Often times they are ‘spoonfed’ by the user. I think the main advantage of these is that you can compress large sentences into a few keystrokes. Good for mail and chat, but not really for writing.

The second category is the autocompleter per se: this grabs usage statistics and guesses what you write about. No spoon-feeding. All words are potential suggestions, not only the acronyms you typed in.

Some text editors, like vim, actually use words in the same file/other open files to guess better what you really want (not intellicomplete though). This is what I consider gets you the best time savings.

]]> By: shane http://www.academicproductivity.com/2007/increase-your-typing-speed-with-an-autocompleter/comment-page-1/#comment-806 shane Mon, 07 May 2007 11:23:07 +0000 http://www.academicproductivity.com/blog/2007/increase-your-typing-speed-with-an-autocompleter/#comment-806 I use an autocompleter, but I mainly used for correcting typos, using the autocorrect features of MS Word and some common misspellings from wikipedia. You can however, add abbreviations for auto completion, e.g. I type sig in any program and it prints out my signature. Its freeware, and uses another great time saver, AutoHotKey: http://www.biancolo.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.25569/universal_autocorrect_with_autohotkey_and_wikipedi I use an autocompleter, but I mainly used for correcting typos, using the autocorrect features of MS Word and some common misspellings from wikipedia.
You can however, add abbreviations for auto completion, e.g. I type sig in any program and it prints out my signature.
Its freeware, and uses another great time saver, AutoHotKey:

http://www.biancolo.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.25569/universal_autocorrect_with_autohotkey_and_wikipedi

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