Observations on the world and its inhabitants
Do you need to know exactly how the electronics in your car works – or how the transmission works – before you drive your car? Hover your mouse over these these 3 dots just in case. That’s the point. It is about how I did that 3 dots thing. I don’t know – I did ...
Recently I moved to Espanso both on Windows and BigLinux for a free and easy way to create shortcuts for key phrases used. There are now several articles on this site about the learning. That means something. Espanso on Windows is easier to setup. It can output images, text, and a whole lot more – ...
We have all been there. You are halfway through typing “I hope this email finds you well” for the fourteenth time since breakfast, and for a split second, you actually forget how to spell “well.” Like wut! It happens to people. Or perhaps you are staring at a blinking cursor, trying to remember if your ...
Espanso is a free, open-source text expander that works across Windows, macOS and Linux. Most guides cover the basics — type a trigger, get some text. This guide goes further, covering features that turn Espanso from a simple text replacer into a genuinely powerful productivity tool. For those to want to save the drudgery of ...
Most of us spend our lives fighting with our keyboards. We have these thoughts—medical observations, legal arguments, complex lines of code—but the physical act of typing it out over and over feels like a tax on our time. When I first looked at Espanso, I almost closed the window. It looked like a wall of ...
After getting my “digital brain” perfectly tuned on my BigLinux desktop, the next hurdle was getting it onto my Windows 11 laptop. On paper, it looks easy: you just copy a file from one machine to the other. In reality, Windows is a bit more sensitive about how it “reads” those files, and I ran ...
This post documents the transition from TextBlaze to Espanso on a BigLinux system, detailing the technical hurdles overcome and the final configuration logic. The plan is then to run Espanso on W11. 1. Espanso vs. TextBlaze: Key Differences While both tools serve the same goal, the philosophy of use is different: 2. The Critical First ...
