Boilerplate+with+Quicksilver

Quicksilver use #743: If you've only got a few snippets of repetitive text you need to type from time to time, you can set up your very own Quicksilver triggers (i.e., keyboard shortcuts) to paste your common snippets in a flash. After the jump, I'll walk you though how to set up quick text snippet insertions with Quicksilver. First, open up the Quicksilver preferences to the [|Triggers pane]—it's time to create a new trigger. So hit the little plus sign (+), and hit Hotkey from the drop-down. In the first pane, hit the period (.) to go into text mode, then type or paste your text snippet into there. Then tab to the Action pane and make "Type Text" your action. Here's where things get fancy. Since sending the text immediately when you hit the shortcut can cause some unexpected results (for example, if you set your trigger using the Alt/Option key, your text may come out all jumbled with accents), so you need to set up a slight delay. To do so, hit Ctrl-Enter. That'll bundle up the whole command into the top pane, allowing you to select "Run after Delay" in your second pane. Then tab to the third and type in 1s (for 1 second). This may all sound overly convoluted, but it's really not that difficult. Now all that's left to do is set your trigger. Double-click the Trigger column of your new Trigger, then type in the shortcut you'd like to use to invoke your text snippet (for example, for an email address you might use Ctrl-Shift-E).