plover

Mentioned by others, but I like project pages or home git repositories. https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover https://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/ An in-browser demo, https://www.openstenoproject.org/demo/ Suggested, loved extensions, https://github.com/openstenoproject/awesome-plover Chorded keyboard input methods, more generally, are worth looking into.

Some distributions take this more seriously than others. Debian, historically, is the largest stickler about this. I've had to delay packaging things for licensing problems[1], written 1000+ line d/copyright files[2], etc. Not all distributions will take the investigations that seriously. I'm not saying that Debian always gets it right either! Just, there's an emphasis on doing so. [1]: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/issues/560 [2]: https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/a/an...

Chording keyboards have become significantly more popular among software engineers, although they're still not popular in an absolute sense. Check out https://www.openstenoproject.org/ and its Discord server for a vibrant community consisting primarily of student and professional stenographers and software engineers. (Note that the focus is on two-handed chording). For me, a chording keyboard system is significantly more ergonomic than e.g. Dvorak. However, it doesn't improve productivity for coding itself; on the other hand, it's very useful for writing design documentation and messaging coworkers. But it's a large investment for what many people consider small gains. I personally own a 3D-printed steno keyboard, which I bought some 3 or 4 years ago. You can find a list of hobbyist keyboards here: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plov

> I'm new to steno. This article in their wiki is great: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Stenography-... I don't get why that page doesn't call it stenotypy (as in, on a machine) instead of stenography (as in Pitman, Gregg, Teeline, etc.). Also, I take it that "CAT software" does not refer to computer-aided translation here?

I'm new to steno. This article in their wiki is great: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Stenography-... It's essentially a chord-based, dictionary-based, short-hand typing. You write by looking up entries in a custom dictionary (a dictionary of syllables for example) by pressing combinations of keys. The stenographer's keyboard has few keys, compared to a QWERTY. You can define your dictionary however you like. This must be extremely good for languages whose phonetics can be directly translated to its ortographics (without semantic or grammatical parsing), because then the dictionary is small and easy to remember. English is not optimal in that sense: e.g. the words 'flower' and 'flour' are phonetically identical. Edit: but then, ML transcription would work great for those languages for the same reason. You could supplement

CamelCase is built in to Plover! [1] symbols work too - they might have less intuitive memorisation, but you don't use that many anyway (unless you're in APL...but that doesn't work with normal keyboards either). You can set up Vim-like navigation e.t.c. too (e.g. [2]), for moving about in code. I haven't tried it. I think however that the benefits of coding with Plover aren't really great enough to justify the huge struggle it would be to get proficient with it. [1] https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Dictionary-F... [2] http://www.openstenoproject.org/stenodict/dictionaries/vim_d...

I haven't tried it, but there is a list of available dictionaries in Plover format [1] including French, Spanish and Italian. As to switching on the fly, I can't see anything in the docs about it - this extension might work? [2] [1] https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/List-of-Avai... [2] https://github.com/nsmarkop/plover_system_switcher

I haven't tried it, it looks to me like it doesn't support N-key rollover out of the box which would definitely be a problem. You can try it out but if you wanted to put more serious time into it, I'd highly recommend picking up something more dedicated like the "Georgi" listed here: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Supported-Ha...

Sorry I was talking about digital. I didn't even know about the pen and paper kind. There are portable devices https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Supported-Ha...

This is an important topic of development for Open Steno. Machine shorthand has existed in many languages and is used in many countries. However, not all of them are "computer" or "realtime" compatible, which roughly means that you wouldn't be able to distinguish in your writing between homophones like "their" and "there" and "they're." Here's a list of some of the languages that have been developed or ported to Plover: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Chorded-Syst... There is a Plover plugin to switch on-the-fly between different steno systems. There is also a plugin to switch between enabled dictionaries on-the-fly. Finally, there is the idea of bilingual dictionaries, but I haven't seen it implemented well yet. There's also the problem of some languages having drastically different layouts. So far, the most multilingual

It's the project behind Plover (https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Beginner's-G...), a cross-platform free steno program that works with normal (NKRO) keyboards and steno machines. There are also a number of hobbyist steno machines, made by the community, that run ~$100, instead of >$1000 for a real machine. https://www.gboards.ca/product/georgi https://stenomod.blogspot.com/ I'm typing this, in Plover, on a georgi.

The underlying dictionaries Plover uses can be changed: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Dictionary-F... So if you want to optimize for typing another language, you can swap in corresponding dictionaries and type away. There's only the slight problem that there might not yet exist any for your language...

Here is a link to the code. Couldn't seem to find it anywhere on the website. https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover