This was so entertaining and endearing! I love the way you talk about steno and how doggedly you muddle through these early lessons. I promise it gets way more fun the more muscle memory you develop with it! Keep going!!
It's nice to see someone working at it in early stages. I'm almost 3 months in, so can see my improvement in comparison. On the topic of consistency, I have to say I'm glad that I decided to switch over to Phoenix theory. The learning material is really well-structured, introducing concepts slowly with lots of targeted drills (and lots of full sentences), and even exercises to read from the tape. It's also easy to load the drills into stenojig. I don't think I'd be as far along as I am now if I was dealing with some of the more random-seeming choices in Plover's default theory, and trying to piece together lessons on my own.
Well I still have a long way to go, and it's sometimes intimidating to see people who are significantly faster. I'll have to talk a look at that! Thanks for the input, I haven't heard of it before.
I'm interested in doing this too, so this is so great to see your journey. I was looking at getting the same keyboard too. I may get it, I'm so fascinated to know if I can actually learn steno.
Keeping a chart on the wall helps while learning. Also, it helps to use briefs. "This is a lot of fun" doesn't have to be six strokes. For me it would be just three TH-S/LAOF/FUPB. Keep going. Focus on common things you hear/use often. Also there's a ton of court reporting dictation that can help on UA-cam.
heads up - fdm keycaps suck. if you have a resin printer it's workable also - don't be afraid about voicing your liking of chiclet style keys - there's a section of the mk community which would probably understand, and the benefits of having short, quick keys are the whole reason why choc/low-pro switches exist
Great video Jarren! I'm also currently deciding to *really* start practicing steno ;-) Coming from a piano background, I've noticed that an effective way for me to learn was to *really* focus on accuracy at the beginning although I am slowwww, since I want to train my fingers to get the chord correct... if it's like piano, speed just comes naturally with time... I hope 😅 Anyhow, hopefully soon enough we'll all happily be AOUGS STOEUPB! Cheers!
Uni is crappy by default. Once you pick up speed you need to change the springs and keycaps. Otherwise you get fatigued faster and default keycaps are not well chosen for steno.
Just realized that AOEU is the order of the vowels in dvorak (technically AOEUI)
This was so entertaining and endearing! I love the way you talk about steno and how doggedly you muddle through these early lessons. I promise it gets way more fun the more muscle memory you develop with it! Keep going!!
It's nice to see someone working at it in early stages. I'm almost 3 months in, so can see my improvement in comparison. On the topic of consistency, I have to say I'm glad that I decided to switch over to Phoenix theory. The learning material is really well-structured, introducing concepts slowly with lots of targeted drills (and lots of full sentences), and even exercises to read from the tape. It's also easy to load the drills into stenojig. I don't think I'd be as far along as I am now if I was dealing with some of the more random-seeming choices in Plover's default theory, and trying to piece together lessons on my own.
Well I still have a long way to go, and it's sometimes intimidating to see people who are significantly faster.
I'll have to talk a look at that! Thanks for the input, I haven't heard of it before.
Where do you get Phoenix theory and training?
@@encapsulatio Search for Chicory Meadow. Can get the books there and they'll send the dictionary to you via email.
what a cool little device! and great video I also see your close to 1,000 subs... Great job!
I'm interested in doing this too, so this is so great to see your journey. I was looking at getting the same keyboard too. I may get it, I'm so fascinated to know if I can actually learn steno.
Keeping a chart on the wall helps while learning. Also, it helps to use briefs. "This is a lot of fun" doesn't have to be six strokes. For me it would be just three TH-S/LAOF/FUPB. Keep going. Focus on common things you hear/use often. Also there's a ton of court reporting dictation that can help on UA-cam.
heads up - fdm keycaps suck. if you have a resin printer it's workable
also - don't be afraid about voicing your liking of chiclet style keys - there's a section of the mk community which would probably understand, and the benefits of having short, quick keys are the whole reason why choc/low-pro switches exist
Great video Jarren!
I'm also currently deciding to *really* start practicing steno ;-)
Coming from a piano background, I've noticed that an effective way for me to learn was to *really* focus on accuracy at the beginning although I am slowwww, since I want to train my fingers to get the chord correct... if it's like piano, speed just comes naturally with time... I hope 😅
Anyhow, hopefully soon enough we'll all happily be AOUGS STOEUPB!
Cheers!
Multiple syllable words with double constant words. We saw the pause there. "Ohh, god, what have I done". Keep at it.
I have the ecosteno. I've been using it for a week or 2 and I'm at about 8 wpm but I'm still on the basic words
Yeah the dictionary is definitely the biggest component. I'm interested in the charachorder lite because it's the normal qwerty keyboard.
Hey Jarren, how's the stenotyping going? It's been 4 months.. have you given up or are you blazing through the words now?
How do you capitalize words? I'm an official court reporter, but I'm trying to integrate steno in my day-to-day activities.
oh KPA
How do I turn off caps? I also don't know where to find out things like symbols and how to fingel spell in lower case.
I believe Plover has a legend that shows the key combinations. They also have a discord you could use to ask questions!
so, you finish that super clean dubstep album with good morals and no curse words ?!
Hahaha the internet is forever.
But also yes: The Chaos EP - Jarren
Where are you from???
Uni is crappy by default. Once you pick up speed you need to change the springs and keycaps. Otherwise you get fatigued faster and default keycaps are not well chosen for steno.
Stop. Flipped.
Skower. Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
STPH. FPLTD.
SKWR. RBGSZ.