Computer software for saving the user keystrokes by customized abbreviations for frequently used text strings and images via use of short abbreviations to insert snippets containing frequently used phrases and images by allowing insertion of standard greetings and signatures, including formatted text and pictures, assigning of hotkeys to save further time when creating, editing, and searching snippets, repositioning the cursor in the expanded snippet, fill-in-the-blank snippets to enter variable data in multiple fields, organizing snippets into groups, automating management of snippets and groups via scripts, adding snippet groups from external file and online sources, sync snippets via Internet-based data synchronization services, insertion of the current date and time in user-preferred format, correction of common typographical errors, typing of special characters without having to launch a special characters palette, triggering of snippet expansions automatically by typing user-specified abbreviations or more than thirty delimiter characters as a trigger, creation of editor-independent code templates and invocation of scripts