The software seems good but I and others on DC have disagreed with the company's attitude
Rjbull, I believe this describes your posting best. ;-)-BartelsMedia
I made a plain statement to show my point of view. I have said - more than once - that I thought your
software was good. So I consider that rude and uncalled-for.
InstantText is absolutely worth its money for its specific purpose and is tailored with awesome capabilities to the specific market of medical/legal transcription. However, I would hesitate to say that it has "more features" than PhraseExpress.
InstantText does not support text formatting, does not offer completion of full sentences and afaik, it has no macro automation programming language. Just to name a few.
PhraseExpress is not only a text auto-completion software, but also a text/code snippets organizer. Well, ...Merylic already provided the list of features.
I agree, to an extent. You have correctly described Instant Text's value to its target market, where its focus on shorthand expansion rather than completion is appropriate. I used it for mostly for making abstracts bulletins and I was very happy with its set of features; sentence completion would have had no real value to me. Coding snippets is a different matter. Instant Text has crude keyboard macros in that you can tell it to send things like Alt-keys and Function keys, but its key feature that I haven't seen anywhere else is the ability to examine a corpus of pre-existing text (including Word docs) and work out a set of expansions based on it. IT gives you further tools for massaging the short forms so generated into whatever style you prefer, e.g.
John Knowles' ABCZ Typing Abbreviation System. IT also has separate lists of words and phrases, with separate triggers for them, and allows you to use no specific trigger beyond punctuation, which is a great help to typing flow.
The feature I was interested in was being able to use the same short form for more than one long text, e.g. "apon" for "application," "apparition," and "apportion."
I am happy to tell, that this feature always was and is available in the free version and I am sorry if you missed that.
Yes, I did miss that, thanks for pointing it out. Which leaves me ruefully remembering I paid extra for the Pro version 7 to get it

One more thing, not special to you, but with plenty more software companies. You sent me an automated e-mail recently to tell me version 8 had been released. My key is for 7 (also have 6) and this would be a paid upgrade. When sending out notifications, is there any way you can make it clear in the e-mail that it is a
paid upgrade? I don't like installing something and only then finding it isn't still registered. Your licensing is now slightly more complicated than it was, too, as I think you only used to have two versions, where you now appear to have three?