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I'm wondering about the user specific dictionaries and whether or not adoption would be aided by the communities trying to define sets of standard dictionaries

I'm wondering about the user specific dictionaries and whether or not adoption would be aided by the communities trying to define sets of standard dictionaries that seem to be particularly efficient and effective at different tasks, like coding in brackets languages, or just general coding dictionaries. If I tried to use it for something somewhat non standard and had to start defining a lot of my own chords, I'd pretty quickly wonder if I was handicapping myself by making bad choices in defining things. Might be that I'd quickly realize it doesn't matter for whatever reason. Looks really rad, either way.

NoMoreNicksLeft 12y ago
At work, in Lync (worst IM ever), email, and so forth, I just switched OSs and I'm getting alot of irritation from the spell checker. The sheer amount of jargon that it thinks are misspellings and tries to fix is staggering. Dozens per day, at minimum. I'm assuming all of those would require custom definition. I can't seem myself going through the hassle. And even if the job is done collectively, our department has less than 50 people in it (maybe 70 if you include the data center). It's not a big enough community for it to spread thin. Steno seems like last century's solution to the problem, not this century's.
- Jonovono 12y ago
  Ya, would be interesting to rethink it. Seems cool, but like the question about using it on your phone. Since steno you need two hands you can't use it on your phone (keyboards on your pockets? lol :) )
  - ploversteno 12y ago
    The Android app is actually pretty decent; you use it Swype-style, but rather than employing Swype's predictive method, it's 100% deterministic, so you know what you're going to get every time. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brentandjody.stenoime&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brentandjo...
    - kragen 12y ago
      Neat! Is it proprietary, or could it be put on F-Droid? I don't use the Play Store.
      - ploversteno 12y ago
        It's open source, but you'd have to ask the developer to send you an apk, I think. Or compile your own, I guess: https://github.com/brentn/StenoIME https://github.com/brentn/StenoIME
        kragen 12y ago
        Fantastic, thanks!
Jonovono 12y ago
Ya. The way I pictured it working would be something like your vimrc file or whatever. People post those online all the time as a 'good' starting point. Then eventually you want to add your own and what not.

NoMoreNicksLeft 12y ago

At work, in Lync (worst IM ever), email, and so forth, I just switched OSs and I'm getting alot of irritation from the spell checker. The sheer amount of jargon that it thinks are misspellings and tries to fix is staggering. Dozens per day, at minimum. I'm assuming all of those would require custom definition. I can't seem myself going through the hassle. And even if the job is done collectively, our department has less than 50 people in it (maybe 70 if you include the data center). It's not a big enough community for it to spread thin. Steno seems like last century's solution to the problem, not this century's.

Jonovono 12y ago
Ya, would be interesting to rethink it. Seems cool, but like the question about using it on your phone. Since steno you need two hands you can't use it on your phone (keyboards on your pockets? lol :) )
- ploversteno 12y ago
  The Android app is actually pretty decent; you use it Swype-style, but rather than employing Swype's predictive method, it's 100% deterministic, so you know what you're going to get every time. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brentandjody.stenoime&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brentandjo...
  - kragen 12y ago
    Neat! Is it proprietary, or could it be put on F-Droid? I don't use the Play Store.
    - ploversteno 12y ago
      It's open source, but you'd have to ask the developer to send you an apk, I think. Or compile your own, I guess: https://github.com/brentn/StenoIME https://github.com/brentn/StenoIME
      - kragen 12y ago
        Fantastic, thanks!

Jonovono 12y ago

Ya. The way I pictured it working would be something like your vimrc file or whatever. People post those online all the time as a 'good' starting point. Then eventually you want to add your own and what not.