Snippets

Snippets

Snippets let you expand short triggers into longer text, with placeholders that fill in dynamic values like the current date or your clipboard contents. They can be scoped per profile and triggered in different ways.

📸 Screenshot needed: The Snippets page listing several snippets, with one open for editing showing its trigger, body text, trigger mode, and profile scope.

Placeholders

Snippet bodies support placeholders that are replaced when the snippet expands:

Placeholder	Expands to
{date}	The current date.
{time}	The current time.
{datetime}	The current date and time.
{clipboard}	The current clipboard contents.
{day}	The current day.
{year}	The current year.

📸 Screenshot needed: A snippet body that uses placeholders such as {date} and {clipboard}, shown in the editor.

Trigger modes

Each snippet uses one of two trigger modes:

Mode	Behavior
Anywhere	The trigger fires when it appears anywhere in the dictated text.
Exact Phrase	The trigger fires only on an exact phrase match.

📸 Screenshot needed: The trigger-mode selector showing the Anywhere and Exact Phrase options.

Per-profile scoping

Snippets can be scoped per profile by profile id, so a snippet only applies within the profile you assign it to. Leave a snippet unscoped to keep it available more broadly, or tie it to a specific profile to keep context-specific expansions separate. See Profiles for how profiles match the active application or URL.

📸 Screenshot needed: The per-profile scope control on a snippet, showing it bound to a specific profile.

Related pages

• Profiles — how profiles are matched and how snippet profile scoping ties in.

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Changelog

Date	Change
2026-06-17	Initial version.