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50 things to type with a blank

Every row below is a shape the OpenCues runtime actually supports, drawn from the shipped blanks' own trigger lists and the project's benchmark suites, not from imagination. Type the phrase, end with _, and the answer lands in place. Example outputs are illustrative; live data rows return whatever is true when you type them.

Math and conversion

#	Type this	What happens
1	`8 + 5 = _`	`13`
2	`6 * 9 = _`	`54`
3	`100 celsius in fahrenheit = _`	`212`
4	`5 miles in km = _`	`8.05`
5	`70 kg in pounds = _`	`154`

Facts and dev lookups

#	Type this	What happens
6	`the capital of france is _`	`Paris`, sentence kept
7	`the CEO of Apple is _`	`Tim Cook`
8	`the chemical symbol for gold is _`	`Au`
9	`2024 in roman numerals is _`	`MMXXIV`
10	`red in hex is _`	`#FF0000`
11	`http status for not found _`	`404`
12	`default port for redis _`	`6379`

Words and language

#	Type this	What happens
13	`the opposite of hot is _`	`cold`
14	`hello in french is _`	`Bonjour`
15	`thank you in japanese is _`	The Japanese phrase, in place
16	`define ephemeral _`	`lasting for a very short time`

Live data

#	Type this	What happens
17	`weather london _`	`London: 13°C Overcast`
18	`nvda _`	`NVDA: $198.47`
19	`nvidia stock _`	Same quote, company-name form
20	`bitcoin _`	`BITCOIN: $68,432.50`
21	`hn _`	Top Hacker News story
22	`is claude down _`	`No — all systems operational`

Offline country data

#	Type this	What happens
23	`population of France _`	`67.7M`
24	`capital of Japan _`	`Tokyo`

System control

#	Type this	What happens
25	`volume _`	Live volume, e.g. `50%`
26	`volume 30 _`	Sets system volume to 30
27	`volume up _`	Steps volume up
28	`brightness _`	Live brightness, steppable

Rewrites and transforms

#	Type this	What happens
29	`make this more formal _`	Rewrites the text before it
30	`make past tense _`	`they build` → `they built`
31	`fix the grammar _`	One-shot grammar pass
32	`translate to spanish _`	Whole draft, in place
33	`change boy to girl _`	Targeted word swap
34	`title case _`	Retitles the text
35	`turn these into a bullet list _`	Lines become `-` items
36	`make this a heading _`	Heading styling applied

Inline styling

#	Type this	What happens
37	`make wilfred bold _`	Bolds that word, rest untouched
38	`code format the command _`	Wraps the named span as code

Generation

#	Type this	What happens
39	`draft an email _`	Writes the draft where the `_` sits
40	`improve prompt _`	Re-renders the prompt you wrote

Settings, spoken plainly

#	Type this	What happens
41	`opencues settings _`	Inline settings menu (cycle to browse)
42	`enable debug logging _`	Flips `debug-mode: on`
43	`voice mode off _`	Silences TTS
44	`make blanks wait for a space before firing _`	Sets `blank-trigger-mode: spaced`

Agent tasks

#	Type this	What happens
45	`agentically correct spelling _`	Arms a continuous editing task
46	`add task fix grammar _`	Stacks a second concern
47	`current task _`	Prints what's running
48	`stop task _`	Stops; existing fixes stay

Identity

#	Type this	What happens
49	`my email _`	Your stored address, substituted locally
50	`set sentinel jobTitle Founder _`	Stores a field in `IDENTITY.md`

Reading the tables honestly

Keyword rows (volume, weather, tickers, settings) are deterministic: the keyword must lead the sentence your _ ends, so prose that merely mentions the word never fires. LLM rows (math, facts, rewrites) are model answers, benched but not infallible; if a blank can't resolve, the _ just stays. Every substitution is revertable by navigating to it and cycling back.

And the gallery keeps growing: the note blank adds a 51st shape - save any snippet once with note add fix mp4: <command> _, recall it anywhere with note ffmpeg _, fully local and LLM-free.