Find the right snippet fast with the picker window
Open the picker with Ctrl+Shift+Space, search, and insert with the keyboard alone. Useful when you forget a trigger.
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Nobody remembers every trigger. The picker window is the safety net: a small window that you open from anywhere, search by a word, and close again after inserting. Learned well, it means you never have to remember more than a handful of triggers.
Opening and closing it
Press Ctrl+Shift+Space, or click the tray icon in the Windows notification area, and the picker opens. Press Esc to close it without inserting anything. The window is intentionally small so that it does not take over the screen while you are in the middle of writing.
Searching, choosing and inserting
As soon as the picker opens you can type. Search for any word you remember from the snippet: not only the trigger, but a word from its content. If you cannot remember whether your shipping answer was /ship or /parcel, type "delay" or "carrier" and the matching snippets appear.
- Type to search.
- Use the arrow keys to move up and down the results.
- Press a number key from 1 to 9 to pick the corresponding result immediately.
- Press Enter to insert the selected snippet at your cursor.
- Press Esc to cancel.
The number keys are the fastest route. If you search for "thanks" and the right snippet is third in the list, press Ctrl+Shift+Space, type the word, press 3. That is about two seconds, entirely on the keyboard, without touching the mouse.
A typical flow
Imagine you are answering a customer who asks about opening hours. You do not remember the trigger. You press Ctrl+Shift+Space, type "hours", see two results, press 1, and the opening-hours text lands in your reply. If you then notice that you needed this snippet several times in a week, that is a sign to give it a shorter or more memorable trigger on the website.
Our opening hours are Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 18:00. On public holidays we are closed.
You can park in the lot behind the building. The entrance is on [Street]. Please take a ticket at the barrier and have it validated at the reception.
Make snippets easy to find
Search works best when your snippet contains the words you would think of. When you write the text, include the plain words someone would search for. A snippet about a late delivery that never uses the words "late", "delay" or "shipping" is harder to find than it should be. The same applies to how you name things on the website: a clear name beats a clever one.
It also helps to keep the number of near-duplicates low. If you have six slightly different greetings, searching for "hello" returns six results and you hesitate. Merge them into two, a formal and an informal one, and the choice is instant.
When to use the picker and when not to
Use the picker for anything you use less than a few times a day, for snippets whose trigger you have forgotten, and while you are still building up your list and learning your own system. For your most frequent snippets, a trigger or a hotkey is faster. Think of the picker as the index of a book: you do not use it for the page you already know.
Practical tip: spend two minutes now to open the picker and press 1 through 9 on a few results. Once the picker is a reflex, you can safely keep a larger library, because finding something never depends on your memory.