
Never waste a second on repetitive typing and the tedium of copy-paste again. Impress your boss and colleagues with a spike in your productivity!
This user-friendly text expander lets you save largish text expansions and associate them with short abbreviations. We support plain or styled text, local and sync browser storage, clipboard macros, date and time macros, dynamic value fields in expansions, dynamic math, omnibox support, and much more!
Your words-per-minute will skyrocket, your colleagues will swoon at your productivity, online drudgery of the corporate world won’t touch you, and you’ll never bother with the Herculean task of right-click, copy, go-somewhere-else, right-click…
For more info, visit the Help section inside the app, or watch the promo video on this page.
⋆Snippets⋆ – expand abbreviations
Define custom abbreviations, and expand them by simply pressing the hotkey (default: Shift+Space). It can be even a full-length email to your customer! Example: “brb” can expand to “Be right back!” Think of these as “canned responses”.
⋆Placeholders⋆ – fields (inside snippets) which can be given dynamic values on using the snippet. Example: snippet “wishBday”, which you can use to wish your friends Happy Birthday! Since the name of the friend keeps changing, so you can add a placeholder in the snippet body, as “%name%” (without quotes). It’ll be auto-highlighted whenever you use the snippet and you can type your friend’s name into it.
⋆Mathomania⋆ – do math without leaving your text editor, and without calculators. Simply type the math expression inside the `[[` and `]]` and press `=` to get the results. (watch the promo video for details) Parentheses and exponentiation is also supported.
Example: “[[ 15% * 600 =]]” gives “90” and “[[ (5+6) * 15^2 =]]” gives “2475”.
⋆Omnibox support⋆ – use the keyword “pk” to directly expand snippets inside of the omnibox/address bar.
⋆Clipboard access⋆ – use [[%p]] anywhere in your snippet body, it is auto-replaced with the current clipboard data.
⋆Date/Time Macros⋆ – embed short symbols (inside a snippet body) which are auto-replaced their current date and time. Multiple date and time formats are supported.
⋆Date/Time Arithmetic⋆ – can be used to move forward or backward in time in the date and time macros. Supports both relative and independent evaluation of the symbols.
⋆Variables⋆ – quickly type date, time, browser version without having to leave your text editor or look at the clock!
⋆Auto-Insert⋆ – Quotes (‘”‘) and braces – ( { [ -are auto-completed, and you can specify your custom insert-it-for-me symbols as well (like, inserting a ‘>’ on typing of a ‘<') in the settings.
⋆Tab Key⋆ – can be used to insert 4 spaces, instead of its default function, thus speeding up your work.
Notes:
– All your data is stored on your PC (or synced across your Chrome sign-ins) and nothing is sent to any external servers! Check the source code if you wish to – https://github.com/GaurangTandon/ProKeys
– You can disable ProKeys for particular websites in the Settings.
– You can take a backup of your data, restore it, and print it as well.
– You are sure of not losing your data as ProKeys stores (on your PC) past 20 revisions of your data.
– You can switch between Sync and Local storage.
Note that the following few web apps are known to be incompatible:
1. Facebook (only comments and profile posts)/Messenger/Quora – uses improper text editor.
2. Google Docs – as it is a full-fledged editor itself. (But Google Docs comments section works)
Contact me at [email protected] if you know of a dynamic web app that's missing from the list above, or to give feedback.
Also note that the input of type email and number do not support caret manipulation so ProKeys can't function there (and neither does it work in password fields, for obvious reasons).
ProKeys developed with ♥ by – Gaurang Tandon and Varun Singh
This is absurd! Prokeys deleted all my snippets, that I collected and created for 7 months! No explanation, no help, no assistance. They just delete everything and leave you cope with it. In this day and age where everything is replicated many times in the cloud this is simply unacceptable for a modern day company! I would lea 0 Stars if I could.
Lists do not keep their format! I created a snippet that resolves to a bulleted list, with sub lists, but when I insert the snippet, or switch from the styled textbox to the standard text area, the list goes back to a single list, without the sublists
I’ve had major problems with this extension. HotKeys do not work on Chromebooks which is very frustrating. I’ve also had my customized snippets deleted several times.
It has a learning curve, but still, its Excellent, the best!
Functionalities are OK (not fabulous) but no support whatsoever from the developer. None.
Es muy bueno y simple. Si se pudieran agregar caracteres de función como por ejemplo CR (carriage return), BS (backspace), etc. Y también la posibilidad de ordenar los snippets por frecuencia de uso o algo así. Hay algunas cositas que no funcionan bien, pero ya lo irán solucionando. Es la mejor opción que encontré hasta ahora y facilitó mucho mi trabajo de responder consultas de ventas. Gracias totales!!!
A nice tool but is not doing the job.
I created 10 templates, which only 3 worked. For an unknown reason the other 7 disappeared, and everyday I need to create a new one. Very time consuming to be honest.
I’ve used this for some math homework involving lots of repetitive LaTeX. Worked great!
Enjoy using the extension, with the occasional hic-ups that follow. Were select fields on select web-sites is configured in such a way, ProKeys will not work when writing inside them (e.g. writing a review of the extension in Chrome Webstore). Alas, this is not due to the extension itself, but rather the website, per my understanding. 🙂 Still use it a lot. Especially as a simple drop-in ‘template engine’ when writing e-mails and ticket replies. With pre-defined replies formatted to my needs. :+1: /Chriztoffer
It doesn’t save the snippets I created.
Doesn’t work consistently with salesforce. I have to refresh my page 2-3 times just to get the extension to work. Love it, but it’s too frustrating to use.
When it works it is really great. Just save a backup of your config. I had to uninstall and reinstall it 2 times in the last month. Not sure why it is happening.
Nice and simple. Easy to use!
This is by far the easiest to use, and functionally robust text productivity tool I have ever come across. It has been a thrill to see this extension progress though different stages. I recommend this extension to literally everyone who browses the internet for more than 3 minutes a month. My boss and coworkers love it just as much as I do now.
Excelente extensión.!!
I use this every day in my job and it is a fantastic timesaver for me!
Thanks to the developer for creating this and the ongoing work with pushing updates and fixes! 🙂
very usefull
I just want to say thanks. I found ProKeys a couple of years ago, my first year as an eLearning teacher. Teaching online, I find the need to provide a lot of textual feedback to students, yet I also find myself saying the same things over and over again. ProKeys allows me to, with less effort, give more feedback and more support to my students. You actually allow me to do my job better in less time. By now, I have a library of over four hundred snippets that I use daily. I appreciate it, and my students do as well, not to mention all the colleagues I have shown it to. I wish you all the best in your work, and I thank you again for all you have done.
Great work, save my efforts to make emails.
Very useful, thanks!
Good extension, but they really need to stop making it pop up every time I run Chrome. It needs to stay in the background until I open it.
Update 7/30/2019 – Adding a star because the developer responded to my comment above and indeed the pop-ups stopped immediately afterward. I think there were just several updates in quick succession. This is a very useful extension.
works only on gmail
This one of the best extensions of chrome saves me alot of time with my work!!!
Great resource for providing students written feedback in a quick, manageable way. If you’ve never tried grading 150 essays and leaving useful feedback for each student, take it from me, this app is an absolute life saver!
This extension has been a huge asset to efficiency and simplification. In my role at work I often times have to type out the same thing in multiple locations so to have this has save me SOOO much time.
I have referred several colleagues to this and I think it has been just as beneficial for them as it has been for me.
Absolutely love it!