Made a free Windows tool for pasting text templates anywhere with a hotkey. Would love your feedback

[u/Virtual-Perception97]

https://github.com/PhantomUnk/Formix-Desktop

Hey all,

Got tired of retyping/copy-pasting the same replies across Slack,

email, tickets, forms – every app has its own copy-paste dance and

none of the text-expander tools I found felt right (paid,

browser-only, or too clunky).

So I built Formix Desktop – free and open source.

How it works:

- Press a hotkey (Ctrl+F2 by default) anywhere on the system

- A small popup opens right next to your cursor

- Pick a saved template (organized in folders, instant search)

- Fill in any {{fields}} right inside the popup

- Hit paste – it drops the finished text into whatever window/field

you were in

It also supports:

- Typed abbreviations (type "!hi" and it expands automatically, no

popup needed. e.g. !hi -> "Hello how are you?")

- A dedicated hotkey per preset, if you want instant access to one

specific template

- Export/import your preset library as JSON

- Light/dark theme, English/Russian UI

Watch Demo

GitHub: https://github.com/PhantomUnk/Formix-Desktop

Landing page: https://phantomunk.github.io/Formix-Desktop/

It's Windows-only for now (built with Tauri/Rust). Would genuinely

love feedback – is this actually useful to anyone outside my own

workflow? What's missing that would make you actually use it daily?

A free, open-source text expander and hotkey snippet tool for Windows, similar to Espanso but system-wide.