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Today, I’m bringing you another Business Boost episode to highlight a tool that I’ve been using for nearly 10 years: TextExpander. Our work often involves repeating routine phrasing, administrative boilerplate, and complex diagnostic explanations, all of which consume substantial time. I demonstrate how utilizing software like TextExpander allows practitioners to build standardized snippet repositories, insert digital signatures seamlessly, and automate repetitive clinical text blocks. Additionally, I look at my decade-long metric tracking data, demonstrating how even modest shortcut integration generates compound efficiency gains and saves dozens of hours of report-writing time.
Main Topics Discussed
- 00:06: Overview of text expansion software and snippet repository organization
- 01:00: Accessing shared snippet groups for psychological evaluation reports
- 02:14: Walkthrough of creating custom text expansion shortcuts and prefix selection
- 04:34: Demonstrating cross-platform functionality in Google Docs and email fields
- 05:40: Advanced applications for digital signatures and standardized clinical paragraphs
- 06:50: Cost-benefit analysis of subscription software for practice management
- 08:45: Analyzing 10-year usage metrics and cumulative typing time saved
Cool Things Mentioned
- Craft: the premier membership community for testing psychologists
- Crafted Practice: the only in-person business retreat for testing psychologists
- Reverb: the premier AI-powered report-writing platform for testing psychologists
- TextExpander
- Jeremy’s TextExpander snippet group: https://snippets.textexpander.com/group/8a09df8dae851d8d57e9ef38bb12f6fd
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About Dr. Jeremy SharpI’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and have grown to over 20 clinicians. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents.
As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids.
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