TextExpander: The Sound of Productivity
… can be hazardous to your relationship. That’s what TJ, a regular contributor of TextExpander tips, found out. From his blog, in which the TJ household has finally upgraded from dial-up internet:
So I’m sitting on the bed with my laptop, and Tracey is working on the Desktop. We’ve been here for several hours — in fact I don’t remember the last time Tracey was up this late.
A few minutes ago she turned around and said “What’s that noise?”
We then had the to-be-expected conversation of me asking What Noise? followed by her trying to imitate the sound and then me mocking her. She claimed the sound was coming from my computer. I told her it was all in her head.
I thought it was over until a few minutes later she said, “Right there! That noise! What was that?!?!”
“Oh” I thought, realizing exactly what it was (and that her impression of it wasn’t all that bad, I just no longer “heard” it because I was used to it…
It’s the sound TextExpander plays by default when you use a shortcut.
TJ suggests one might want to disable that sound in TextExpander Preferences in the interests of domestic tranquility.
Maybe she needs a copy of TextExpander of her very own — then she’ll come to associate that sound with the pleasure of having saved time and energy. 