Hack #14: Write Faster

Write smarter, not harder! The ASCII-based shorthand hack called Speedwords will not only enable you to write faster on paper without learning a special shorthand alphabet, but will also enable you to type faster in many word processors and text editors.

Additions and Suggestions

Concrete ideas to modify and expand this hack go here.

• How about Read Faster?

See SpeedReading

Discussion

Every morning that I take the bus to work, I ride past a sign for the Megumi Preschool. "Megumi" means "better noon" in DuttonSpeedwords?. I like to think I'll have a good lunch that day.

-- Ron Hale-Evans [[DateTime?(2006-03-06T19:18:44Z)]]

Links

• Harrison, Rick. 1994. "Language profile: Speedwords." http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/conlang.dir/Speedwords.overview
• ShorthandSystem on the Mentat Wiki
• National Institute of Standards and Technology. "Zipf's Law." http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/zipfslaw.html

Errata

Errata go here.

Hack Author

Ron Hale-Evans

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This is a page for a hack from the book MindPerformanceHacks by Ron Hale-Evans.