But for the bits and pieces that are essentially the same info sent over and over, Text Blaze makes the process of responding personally a heck of a lot more practical.Īs you can imagine, the possibilities for this are practically endless. The responses are all real and human-handled, and they often have individualized elements that are typed by hand on the spot. If you’ve ever signed up for my Android Shortcut Supercourse or another one of my e-courses and emailed me for a custom bonus tip at the beginning, guess what? Text Blaze is the tool that makes it possible for all of those responses to be handled personally without a complete loss of every working hour (not to mention every last remaining shred of sanity). You can also access your saved snippets, as Text Blaze calls those text bursts, in your browser’s right-click menu-in case it takes you a while to learn and remember all of the keyboard commands. The Text Blaze dashboard makes it easy to create custom keyboard shortcuts that insert any amount of text anywhere on the web.

The core service is free with certain limitations, while the fully featured version is available for a paltry three bucks a month (or $7 per user per month, in a team-based environment). Text Blaze operates as an extension for the Chrome desktop browser. So I’m going to dive in deeper to Text Blaze and share some of the ways it’s allowing me to streamline tedious tasks and reclaim all sorts of invaluable moments-moments that absolutely add up to extra minutes and sometimes even hours in my days, especially within the realm of email. While I wouldn’t necessarily call that estimate scientific, it’s a nice general idea of what this tool can achieve.

According to its own estimate, I’ve saved 320 hours in the roughly two years since I started using the service, based on the total number of words I’ve avoided typing and the average typing speed of a fast typist. But over this past year, I’ve really stepped up my use of it and worked to take full advantage of its mightiest step-saving possibilities. The tool I’m talking about is a saucy little service called Text Blaze.

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