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If speed is your main concern, have you considered using a shorthand?
by mmel 10y ago
If speed is your main concern, have you considered using a shorthand?
- tbirrell 10y agoShorthand is one of those magical things that seems nice to know but looks like learning a different language.
- ColanR 10y agoIt's not actually that bad. If you're half-decent with memorizing, it's just a new set of symbols. The speed comes from ease of writing (just like in this article).
- themodelplumber 10y agoI started with Ford Shorthand (.Com). It took me a few one hour sessions across 3 days to memorize the glyphs. 6 months of practice later, I was writing much faster and more freely--now it didn't matter where I left my notes. I now have a very hard time not automatically switching to this simple shorthand when I'm writing fast. It's just much more efficient. I also know how to write Gregg at a basic level but Ford was way better for a beginner.
- AceyMan 10y agoMy late mother was a executive secretary (old terms) in a corporate chemical engineering department [1]. She could type tables and such like a demon ... on a Royal manual typewriter, no less. She also could knock out quite decent Gregg shorthand, and I took a stab at learning it from a textbook I picked up used somewhere. I'd pick her brains for help when the book left me hanging. I achieved a decent proficiency for a moderate effort off-hours attempt at self-instruction. It certainly required some patience and effort but I found it fairly natural and well conceived, elegant even. Someday maybe I'll pick it up again. In fifteen years it will seem like alchemy to the young'uns of the future.