That said: I also use expansion to insert email signatures, components of my address, or my phone number, and a few other little things here and there for me. I am 10% more productive – if I were billing (at all!) on a per-transcript basis, I could do (approximately!) 10% more transcription because of the expansion, and thus, 10% more business, than without. When we’re talking about a 10% savings on a task that might take 120 minutes, that’s not trivial. Often I use it for complicated or difficult to type words (Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act Recyclability municipalities), as well as inserting boilerplate and things like “ Interviewer:” “ Respondent:” These shortcuts might allow me to run the audio I am transcribing 10% faster than if I didn’t have those shortcuts, which is roughly a 10% time saving. Similarly, I use a lot of expansion while transcribing interviews. The five minutes it saves me IS meaningful because instead of completing the task at 9:30, I’m done at 9:25 and I am legitimately starting my next task 5 minutes earlier. This might cut down the time it takes to about 25 minutes. With expansion, I don’t have to locate a template file (A one-time time-saver), and I don’t have to do any bounding between files and copying different components (saving me a small amount of time for each email). Let’s say if I do that, the task might take me 30 minutes to complete. But this means locating the template, copy and pasting subject lines and message bodies, bouncing back and forth between files. Without expansion, the fasted way would be to have a template file stored somewhere and copy and paste the contents. One thing I do is often send a large number of nearly identical email messages. It just depends on how that time is being saved.įor me, I use text expansion (formerly TE, now Alfred) in a number of contexts. The seconds saved here and there may or may not add up to meaningful productivity gains. I really think it comes down to exactly how the time is saved.
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