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# Text Snippets

> Expand short keywords into full text blocks while dictating.

Text Snippets are [dictation](/dictation/overview) shortcuts. You say a short trigger, and Snaply expands it into a longer block of text.

## 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.

## Examples

| Keyword     | Replacement                                                  |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| "myemail"   | `john.doe@company.com`                                       |
| "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:` |

<Note>
  Snippets are best for text you repeat often but do not want to say in full every time.
</Note>

## Add A Snippet

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Settings">
    Click on **Settings** in the bottom left corner of Snaply.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Select Dictation Settings">
    Navigate to the **Dictation** section in the settings menu.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Open Snippets">
    Find the **Snippets** section and click **Configure**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add Your Snippet">
    Enter a **keyword** and a **replacement**, then click **Add new snippet**.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## 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.

## Managing Your Snippets

From **Settings -> Dictation -> Snippets**, you can:

* Search by keyword or replacement
* Edit an existing snippet
* Delete snippets you no longer need

## 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.

## Related Pages

* [Back to Dictation overview](/dictation/overview)
* [Teach Snaply custom words](/dictation/custom-words)
* [Tune clipboard fallback behavior](/dictation/clipboard)