Espanso

Espanso replaced my previous text expander within Obsidian after it stopped working:

I found it to be the most reasonable and lightweight option, and it stores some clipboard snippets
My public config is shared at my-espanso-config
I can quickly sync my Espanso config with backup (;ez) and download (;eu)

My setup:

Windows
- Use: search_shortcut: ALT+SHIFT+SPACE
- Also set backend: inject to omit this space issue
macOS
- Use: search_shortcut: CMD+SHIFT+SPACE

📃 Guides

How to detect window title

Type #detect# while focusing on any app, like Obsidian, to get an Espanso pop-up with title, exec, and class so that it can be used with filters.

How not to convert characters on expand

For example, to prevent Obsidian from converting "" into “”, you can either:

Turn off the setting in the “Smart Typography” plugin
Change backend option in $CONFIG/config/default.yml to Clipboard

Using OS-specific filters

I tried using filter_os: macos and filter_os: windows, but it did not work as planned:

search_shortcut has to be placed in config/default.yml, and this file cannot be made OS-specific. A potential solution is not to back it up (Discord)
Having config/macos.yml does not let me keep other app-specific files like config/obsidian.yml as then match/_obsidian.yml does not work (Discord). I would have to only keep config/macos.yml and match/_macos.yml