Text Snippets
By day, I am a web developer; I am of the old school in that I do pretty much all of my web page creating in a text editor. There are however things that I get very tired of writing (not to mention can't always remember off the top of my head). For instance, a php debug command that I use all the time. Or a basic html page template including links to css file and correct encoding. So I use text snippets.
I realise that you can do snippets of text using Quicksilver (I used to do that - create a folder full of text clipping documents, then select the one you want and use the ‘paste’ QS action). But there is a better way.
Check out the unbelievably useful TextPander from the superb (and generous - the app is donationware) Peter Maurer.
Basically it works like this - you create a snippet of text (including images if you want), you assign an abbreviation (eg: I use htmlpage for my html page template), and away you go. When you type the abbreviation in any application, the snippet is put there instead - SO USEFUL! There are extras like where the cursor goes after the text has been pasted in, and automatically adding date/time etc, and automatically adding in special characters.
Try it, I reckon it saves me upwards of 5 minutes a day. Beautiful.
SteamSHIFT out.