ShortHand

About

ShortHand is a local-first snippet manager for Chrome. Type a shortcut, press your trigger key, and ShortHand replaces the abbreviation with a saved expansion wherever you write on the web.

Built for focused daily work:

- Expand snippets in inputs, textareas, and contenteditable editors
- Organize snippets with folders, collections, tags, favorites, pins, and recently used views
- Search across names, shortcuts, expansion text, tags, folder, collection, status, and usage data
- Sort by last edited, recently used, most used, pinned, created date, name, shortcut, or enabled state
- Use smart variables like {{cursor}}, {{date}}, {{time}}, {{datetime}}, {{clipboard}}, and prompted fields such as {{field:Name}}
- Import and export JSON, CSV, and full backups
- Restore, merge, or replace libraries with validation before saving
- Track local usage statistics with times used, last used, average daily uses, favorites, most-used snippets, and popup charts
- Configure theme, trigger key, expansion delay, backups, and keyboard shortcuts

Privacy-first by design:

- No telemetry
- No analytics
- No ads
- No remote servers
- Snippets and settings use Chrome extension storage
- Usage statistics and automatic backups stay local to the browser profile
- Clipboard access is used only when a snippet includes the {{clipboard}} variable

ShortHand ignores password, email, and URL fields, handles IME composition, and expands only the abbreviation immediately before your cursor.