Set up Snipora

1. Download Snipora and open the disk image.
2. Drag Snipora onto the Applications folder.
3. Open it from Applications or Spotlight. It lives in the menu bar; there’s no Dock icon.

Snipora needs two switches in System Settings → Privacy & Security: Accessibility (to replace the abbreviation) and Input Monitoring (to notice it). Click Allow typing access… in the menu bar and macOS opens the right page.

What you type is matched in memory against your abbreviations and never leaves your Mac. If the suggestions feature is on, it counts the last few words, in memory only; turn it off in the menu any time.

• On first launch, allow Contacts and Snipora makes ;name, ;email, ;phone and ;addr from your own card.
• If another expander is installed, Bring your snippets over imports its snippets.
• Select text in any app and press ⌃⌥S to save it as a snippet.
• Or open Edit snippets and click New snippet.

Anywhere

• ⌃ ⌥ Space Search your snippets and paste one
• ⌃ ⌥ S Save the selected text as a snippet

Right after an expansion

• esc Undo it: the abbreviation comes back

Match popup

• ↑ ↓ Move between matching snippets
• tab Expand the highlighted one (↩ works too)
• esc Close the popup

Fill-in form

• tab Next field
• ↑ ↓ Pick an option in a choice list
• ↩ Insert
• esc Cancel

Snippets already work in every browser. The extension is only for snippets set to “Only in…” or “Everywhere except…” a website: it tells Snipora the site’s name (never the full address).

• Safari: Safari → Settings → Extensions, tick Snipora, and allow it on all websites.
• Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc, Vivaldi: in Snipora’s Settings click Set up… next to Browser extension, then add the extension.

In Snipora’s Settings click Copy install command next to Command line, and paste it into Terminal:

sudo ln -sf /Applications/Snipora.app/Contents/MacOS/Snipora /usr/local/bin/snippets

snippets list                     # every abbreviation and its first line
snippets expand ';sig'            # print what it expands to
snippets add ';ty' 'Thank you!'   # add a snippet

1. Your licence key arrives by email right after you buy.
2. Click Go unlimited in the menu bar (or in Snipora’s window), paste the key and click Activate.
3. To move it to another Mac, click Deactivate there first. A 3 or 5 Mac licence works on that many Macs at once.

1. Export your snippets first if you want to keep them (Settings → Export…).
2. Quit Snipora from the menu bar and drag it to the Trash.
3. If you installed the command: sudo rm /usr/local/bin/snippets
4. To remove your snippets too: delete ~/Library/Application Support/Snipora.