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Open Steno Project – Freeing stenography

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Re: Open Steno Project – Freeing stenography

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I've not used the tech, but maybe you could reduce some languages to something lower-level than words, but higher-level than letters. Like syllables. A dictionary of syllables might not be useful, if it's a 2-3 letter syllable that's looked-up via a 2 key chord. Dunno, that might be too simple. But I'd say there's a lot of space here for something better than regular stenography or QWERTY.

Much of what steno dictionaries do is just that. Here's plover's default main.json dictionary [0]. The ^ character in entries works like glue. So entries that end with ^ attach to the next thing you write, and entries that start with ^ attach to the previous thing you wrote. [0] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openstenoproject/plover/ma...

That's cool. The size of this dictionary is pretty intimidating though.

Re: Open Steno Project – Freeing stenography

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To balance the views, Mirabai, the person who started this project, does live transcription in vim and uses it for editing the notes as well. Ted, one of the lead developers, uses steno daily for programming. Emily, another user and plugin developer, has developed dictionaries to help with symbolic input and modifiers (e.g. ctrl+shift+x). There are plugins for changing case (camel, lower, snake etc.)

I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's just not worth learning steno if you mainly do programming. It will be complicated, require complicated chords, require you to constantly add new words and remember what you saved them as, simple chords (short cuts) like C^n turn into complicated ones. It's just not that optimized for programming.

> it's just not worth learning steno if you mainly do programming

I think this will be better answered by someone who has crossed that bridge than you simply jumping to that conclusion with no experience or data to back up your claim.

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