Compress is a tool for automatically creating typing shortcuts from a corpus of your own writing.
The software parses a corpus of text and suggest what shortcuts you should use to save the most letters while typing. It then generates config files for Autokey, a Linux program that implements keyboard shortcuts.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/eschluntz/compress
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Developer: Erik Schluntz
License: Open source
Compress is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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