This system is quite similar to Briefhand, an alphabetic shorthand letter-omission at its core and augmented with abbreviations for common words. With practice,

This system is quite similar to Briefhand, an alphabetic shorthand letter-omission at its core and augmented with abbreviations for common words. With practice, the core rules alone are enough to write at speaking-pace. Over time you develop a personal set of abbreviations. My shorthand is a personal language. Probably anyone could decode my notes back to English with some effort, but my notes are more than text, they’re a mnemonic device: sometimes I only need but a glance to recall my mental formations at the time I was writing.