Web Forms with TextExpander

I recently found myself repeatedly filling out the same web form on a work-related thingy. It is seven fields with the same data, every time. It was driving me nuts. I opened up TextExpander in desperation and found the %key:tab% command. It was really easy building a snippet that tabs between fields.

One caveat: Don’t use this feature for passwords. Snippets + passwords = bad. There are other apps for passwords.

Comments

[Michael Schechter]

Any reason you prefer this method to Identities in 1Password?

[Oneeyebri]

Holy schmolly..what a great tip.

[Ward]

Michael beat me to it -- recording same-every-time form values with 1Password is easy. After saving a partially completed form, I immediately use Shift + 1P menu to Edit the new "login" and turn off Auto-Submit.

When I encounter the form again, the Command-\ keyboard shortcut fills in the saved values and lets me manually enter the unique fields.