Thanks for your comments. I'm Andrea Nagar and I'll be happy to reply to your questions or suggestions here.

@Karl: thanks for the nice words. What do you feel is complicated in getting started? You can get up and running in 3 steps:

1. create a new phrase with the text you want to insert (I think you already know texts that you are typing over and over)

2. set an abbreviation for it. You can use the first word or the first letter of the first words
3. Type the associated abbreviation in any application and the text is expanded

@Amber: you are correct. We are working with people who need to do a lot of repetitive typing and often need to enter the information in a very structured way. Some include: customer care, medical doctors, lawyers, translators and more.
I think writers can use it to enter names of characters that often return, for example but we are not focusing on them.

@col: I agree with you. There are a lot of situation where you need to enter the same information (does you email address or mailing address change? My bet is that you'll have to type it quite a lot).

@Nigel: our competitor is free for non commercial usage only. You can use PhraseExpander for both commercial and non-commercial usage. And, as you can see PhraseExpander is often updated as well (we have recently released v.4.1 http://www.phraseexpander.com/tour/phraseexpander-4-new-features/). I also think that you'll find the PhraseExpander interface much easier to use.

PhraseExpander  –  10 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+148)

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@xpktv2000 Thanks for your comment but PhraseExpander is a completely different product and the autotext of Word is not anywhere near to what you can do with PhraseExpander like building templates that can be customized by point and click on a form.

If you need to do a lot of report filling, you know that Word is autotext is not a good option.

@Entruchio: as said, this tool is not for writers but for people that need to do a lot of repetitive typing.

PhraseExpander  –  10 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+106)

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Installed and registered without problems on a Win 8.1 Pro 64 bit system.

A funny way to receive the registration code: You give them your email address and you receive the registration code only after confirming, that you want to be on their "subscription" list. Whatever this means.

An Italian company with a name & phone. My name is Andrea Nagar and I’m the founder at Nagarsoft.

Upon start a modern interface gives a short and understandable introduction in this program. You can easily add "phrase" e.g.

"Greetings from Nirvana" -> "cntrl"+"N"

This phrase will be inserted in every application, where you want to write a text. This works without problems. And a lot of additional parameters can be used. This makes a good impression. It is not as easy to use, that the other "text-by-key-replacemt" programs, but an excellent addition for those writing often repeating text snippets.

I think, that many of use have a real use for this software. For the simple tasks too complex, for complex tasks simple.

I will keep this... and maybe win the Professional version... LOL

Karl  –  10 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+105)

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To #2 and #6

Yes, you both are right, but...
This (kind of) software is not for authors/writers.
It is meant for anyone who has to type the same "info" over and over again.
Like:
- recurring email addresses
- salutions
- personal data
...
The list and the examples could go on and on.
Everyone who use a computer, sooner or later, disovers that there is a lot of repetitive text/info/data that can be typed repetitively.

This is a "time saver" not a typing ad.

Of course if and how much time you can save relates to two factors:
- How good are you at typing
- How the ergonomics of such a product is well conceived

That said, Happy writing to everybody!

El Coyote  –  10 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+77)

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Pretty good software, but this GAOTD is just the BASIC version of the main program worth a whopping 149 bucks (are you joking, man? LOL!)

http://www.phraseexpander.com/order

So as you can see it actually misses lots of key features provided by Phrase Express (FREE!!), such as displaying suggestions as you type!!

http://www.phraseexpress.com/autocomplete.htm

No offense meant for my fellow countryman developer, but saying that this software (GAOTD = Standard Version worth 59$) is better than "Phrase Express" simply because the latter is FREE only for Personal Use doesn't make too much sense for me!!

Giovanni  –  10 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+58)

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