Stenography or other form of shorthand is the answer. Stenography was used in the last century to write text at the same speed somebody else was talking. No,

Stenography or other form of shorthand is the answer. Stenography was used in the last century to write text at the same speed somebody else was talking. No, swipe is not even close to one quarter of the speed of stenography. Why developers still focus on virtual keyboards that are not in alphabetic order is something that reeks of bad skeuomorphism. It doesn't have a physical keyboard, stop pretending that it does.