There’s an amazing iOS app called Editorial. One of my favorite features is the ability to assign abbreviations/shortcuts - when you type a certain text, it can be replaced by a different text. It’s kind of like snippets in VS Code, except they can also trigger editor commands.
For example:
- Typind “ddd” will replace the d’s with today’s date (“2021-08-29”).
- Typing “ttt” replaces the t’s with the current time.
- Typing “eee” will move the cursor to the end of the document.
- Typing “iii” will run a custom python script I wrote that will paste text from iBooks and remove the annoying copyright notice.
This is extremely flexible, powerful, and useful. Especially on mobile, where you can’t conveniently use keyboard hotkeys.