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Text Snippets are dictation shortcuts. You say a short trigger, and Snaply expands it into a longer block of text.

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How Text Snippets Work

When Snaply hears one of your saved snippet keywords, it swaps that keyword for the replacement text you stored. Snippets are stored locally, and their keywords are added to Snaply’s runtime vocabulary so odd triggers are easier to recognize.

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Examples

KeywordReplacement
”myemail”[email protected]
”myaddress”123 Main Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
”sig”Best regards, John Doe - Head of Product
”standup”Yesterday I worked on... Today I will work on... Blockers:
Snippets are best for text you repeat often but do not want to say in full every time.

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Add A Snippet

1

Open Settings

Click on Settings in the bottom left corner of Snaply.
2

Select Dictation Settings

Navigate to the Dictation section in the settings menu.
3

Open Text Snippets

Find the Text Snippets section and click Configure.
4

Add Your Snippet

Enter a keyword and a replacement, then click Add.

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Good Uses

  • Email addresses
  • Signatures
  • Postal addresses
  • Standup or meeting boilerplate
  • Repeated links, product names, or internal phrases
You can use a single word or a short phrase as the trigger.

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Managing Your Snippets

From Settings -> Dictation -> Text Snippets, you can:
  • Search by keyword or replacement
  • Edit an existing snippet
  • Delete snippets you no longer need

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Tips

  • Use keywords you would not normally say in a sentence.
  • Keep triggers short.
  • Save snippets for genuinely repetitive text.
  • Avoid near-duplicate triggers that are easy to confuse.