As I mentioned a week or two back, I’ve been struggling to break the habit of double-spacing post-period. But the muscle memory seems rather deeply ingrained, and I can definitively say the effort hasn’t been a roaring success. In nearly all my blog posts since, though I’ve removed the second spaces automatically after drafting, it appears I still inadvertently put them in initially at least 50% of the time. And, as I don’t similarly check most of my outgoing emails, nor the majority of what I draft as internal notes for work, I’m sure the problem is even worse when I’m less directly focused on it.

So, two days back, I opted for something more dramatic: I set up a TextExpander snippet to automatically replace “[period][space][space]” with “[period][space]okboomer.” Here’s hoping a little self-directed operant conditioning works where mere effort hasn’t.