Ahoy. How are you keeping? These are some challenging times to navigate, particularly for anyone unfortunate enough to be tasked with piloting an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz unscathed.

World events notwithstanding, it’s not all doom and gloom as April barrels towards us. We could swear there are some tentative green shoots sprouting up, in defiance of the best efforts of the Epically Furious to burn everything to the ground.

Better still, brief flashes of sunlight have managed to pierce London’s murky cloud cover at least twice this month. If that’s not evidence of a seasonal shift, we don’t know what is.

But enough levity. Once again, in what is fast becoming an awkward tradition, we bring news of a software update just as Things are Generally Going South in a Big Way in International Affairs, For Some Weird Reason No One Can Figure Out. 

First Quarter Blues v. Procrastination Prepping, Bucket List Hobbies and Stress-Vibe Coding

You guessed it: a record 5 (five) paragraphs in to this latest screed we can confirm that TypeIt4Me 7.2.1 is ready to download now.

We’ll get to the release notes in a minute, but first an apology. It’s taken Riccardo and me a bit longer than we would have liked to push this maintenance release out the door. That’s because on top of the standard inept coding snafus we typically get bogged down in, there’s been a lot of other stuff going on these past few months. Distractions have come at us thick and fast in 2026.

So far this year, we’ve:

• Discovered that learning to play guitar is not as easy as it looks for a septuagenerian with baby-soft fingertips and an aversion to disciplined practice
• Cobbled together a prototype of a new word game that kind of works without writing a line of code (guess which one of us is very uneasy about this)
• Learned a lot more facts than we ever expected to absorb about the self-governing Danish territory of Greenland
• Brushed up on intra-Nato conflict resolution game theory
• Looked into the fascinating historic role Chislehurst Caves played in sheltering 15,000 people from the Luftwaffe’s aerial attacks during the Blitz in World War II
  • Made discreet inquiries with the staff at the Chislehurst Caves gift shop as to whether being 30 metres below ground would protect against next generation bunker busters and autonomous hunter-seeker drones (They’re not sure but will get back to us)
• Exfiltrated a stranded member of the Ettore family from a Middle Eastern city under fire (She’s now making her way to a safer location at the summit of a live volcano in Guatemala)
• Watched our already severely depleted retirement funds nosedive 1929-style for the second time in 11 months, which probably signals an explosion of macroeconomic growth, peaceful prosperity and generally chill abundance is right around the corner
• Binged on winter Olympic live streams broadcasting the gently life-affirming, transnational camaraderie of the planet’s most gifted ice skaters, as a cost-effective alternative to antidepressant drugs

It’s a miracle, really, if you think about it, that in amongst all that we still managed to fit in some bug squashing, UI-polishing and code optimisation. What can we say? Our sense of duty remains undiminished in the face of adversity and geopolitical perma-crisis.

Now that we’re all caught up, we can get to the Real Info. Without further ado, here’s the lowdown on today’s software update:

What’s New and improved in TypeIt4Me 7.2.1 (262):

Cosmetic changes and under-the-hood performance tweaks:

• When running on Tahoe, all the items in the TypeIt4Me menu now have accompanying SF symbol icons. This avoids haphazard indentations and ensures that all the menu items remain horizontally aligned, so they’ll be easier to scan at a glance.

• Improved compatibility with Spotlight and other non-standard floating input windows, e.g. the Quick Capture panel in Drafts.

Fixed:

• The problem of rich formatted text sometimes being invisible on expansion should no longer occur. This was due to the way rich snippets were saved with black/white colour-reversal while the system Dark Mode appearance setting was enabled. It would sometimes produce white text on a white background or black text on a dark background, rendering it illegible. The trade-off we made to address this issue: the editing area for rich snippets now always has a white background, even in Dark Mode.

• The last update introduced a bug that prevented option / prompt cells from opening automatically for editing when added to a snippet. That bug is now TOAST.
• There was a bug that would prevent the TypeIt4Me icon from showing up in the menu bar. It’s history now. Let’s never speak of it again.

• The priority of identical abbreviations with differing snippet content is once again immediately updated after re-ordering sets in the sidebar. There was a bug in the last update that resulted in a re-launch being required for the change to be registered.

• We fixed an issue with undoing snippet changes or deletions that could sometimes cause a crash.

• We’ve also corrected a slew of minor glitches, missing tooltips and localisation goofs. (Feel free to let us know about any outstanding ones, in case they’re not yet on our To Fix list.)

…Phew.

As always, thanks for being so patient with us while we pulled this release together. We’ll aim to introduce some new features in the next update. Hopefully, we’ll be able to get it to you a little more quickly.

Well, jingle our bells! It’s been a little while since we last had anything juicy to report about TypeIt4Me, hasn’t it. December has rolled around frighteningly quickly. Bet you thought we’d keeled over under the pressure to deliver the goods, eh? Not a chance. We’ve just been busy.

In cheery news befitting the festive season: after four months of wrangling with mystery bugs and trying to get our heads around Liquid Glass, TypeIt4Me 7.2 is at last available to download. Those of you who’ve been restlessly awaiting a Tahoe-optimised tune-up can finally exhale. Here’s the customary round-up of everything this latest update brings to the table.

What’s New and Improved in TypeIt4Me 7.2 (238):

Cosmetic changes, under-the-hood tweaks and added features:

• TypeIt4Me has been re-compiled and optimised for macOS 26 Tahoe, with UI tweaks to accommodate the new look Apple introduced in its latest system. The app icon will also properly adapt to your chosen Appearance settings in the Dock (clear, tinted etc).
• The delete button in the toolbar above the snippet list column has been replaced with an expanded action menu with the following options:

Sort By
Show Duplicates / Show All Snippets
Move to
Copy to
Duplicate
Delete

• You can now swipe to delete snippets.
• There’s better support for nesting snippets. You can now insert a snippet from any set, not just the currently selected one.
• Management of duplicate snippets is much improved and there’s automatic disambiguation of unique identifiers.
• By very popular request, there’s now bigger text in the Abbreviation, Label and (plain) Snippet content fields, so you won’t have to squint so much.

Fixed:

• We squashed a bug that could prevent enabling or disabling the iCloud sync option on macOS 26 Tahoe.

• Snippets now correctly expand in uppercase when Caps Lock is on.

• Inclusion of a vertical pipe character no longer causes rich snippets to expand as plain text.

• The special “Paste clipboard here” function now works again in rich snippets.

• The sort order of the set that you click last before closing the main TypeIt4Me window no longer changes the sort order for all the other sets in the point and click menu.

• The “Open backups folder” buttons in Settings > Backups now work correctly on macOS Tahoe.

• When the abbreviation for a rich snippet contains 2 or more numbers, the snippet no longer incorrectly expands in all caps.

• The “strip ’s’ for plurals” expansion setting now works for rich snippets as well as plain.

• Switching to a different set while in “show duplicates” view now correctly refreshes the snippets list.

• Dock / menu bar icon display settings now behave correctly on macOS Tahoe. You don’t need to relaunch the app for changes to take effect.

• Abbreviations that contain previously problematic diacritics and accented characters (e.g. û) will now expand.

• Abbreviations containing non-ASCII characters (Cyrillic, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Arabic, etc.) are no longer prevented from expanding properly.

• When crafting a pop-up menu, if you name it *after* adding the radio options, the name no longer replaces the final radio option value as soon as you click Done.

• Abbreviations that include numbers now expand with correct capitalisation when you type the first letter with a capital.

• You can now access the full range of rich formatting controls in the Add a Snippet window.
• We’ve also corrected many other minor glitches, missing tooltips and localisation errors. (Do let us know about any outstanding ones, in case they’re not already on our radar.)

…and breathe out.

So, that’s what we’ve been up to all this time. Thanks for being so patient with us while we worked to get this update into the Mac App Store. We’ll do our best not to leave you waiting quite so long for the next update. Riccardo and I are already poring over the To Do list for version 7.2.1 so we can further improve your quality of life. Ultimately, we just want you to be happy. …Oh, hey, that reminds us, we do still need to take an evening off to catch up on Pluribus. Then we’ll get right on it after that.