Quick Text allows you to very quickly enter dates and times in your document.

## Simple quick text

To insert the current date and/or time, tap the Quick Text button. Tap the item you wish to insert in the resulting popup, and it will replace the selected text (or be inserted at your cursor).

To exit the popup window without inserting anything, tap anywhere else or press any key.

## Abbreviations

You can use the following abbreviations for Quick Text and bypass the popup:

- @date or @d: insert the current date
- @time or @t: insert the current time
- @datetime or @dt: insert the current date and time

There are two ways to use abbreviations:

1. Type the abbreviation you want and invoke Quick Text. The abbreviation immediately before your cursor will be automatically expanded.
2. Type one or more abbreviations within a chunk of text, and select the entire chunk. When you invoke Quick Text, all abbreviations will be expanded in place.

## Simple quick notes

You can use Just Type to either create a new document or append some text to an existing document. From anywhere the Just Type bar is shown, start typing and then choose "Quick Note..." in the Quick Actions section. (You will need to add Quick Notes to your list of available actions in the Just Type preferences first.)

After tapping "Quick Note...", TapNote will launch and ask what action to take.

You can use any of the Quick Text abbreviations within your Quick Note, and they will be automatically expanded. For instance, if you type "@time: phone call with Bill" what will be inserted will be something like "9:30 AM: phone call with Bill".

## Quick Note abbreviations

Similar to Quick Text, you can use special abbreviations to make Quick Note even easier to use:

- @new or @n: create a new document
- @append or @a: append the text to an existing document

You must place Quick Note abbreviations at the very beginning of your Just Type text, unlike Quick Text (which can go anywhere). For instance, to create a new document you might type "@new My new document".