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Dev tools · July 2, 2018

Beeftext

An open-source text substitution tool for Windows

Beeftext launched on July 2, 2018 with 5 votes, #1,262 of 2,673 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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What it does

Beeftext is an open-source text snippet management tool for Windows.

Combos are text shortcuts associated with a substitution text. Are you tired of repeatedly typing the same text over and over again? Beeftext is made for you. Beeftext allows you to define combos . A Combo associates a short word that you are unlikely to type in a normal situation (a keyword ) with a piece of long or complex text you often need to type (a snippet ). From now on, every time you type the keyword, in any text area of any application that support copy/paste (99.9% of them do), the combo is triggered and Beeftext automatically replaces the keyword by its associated snippet. Thanks to Unicode encoding, this text can be in any language, using any kind of characters, even exotic…from beeftext.org

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