Plover Learner: A New Steno Learning Blog
I love reading steno learning diaries. Over the years, the open steno community has built up quite a few, including:Lars's Steno For Programming DiaryMartin's StenostoriesWaleed's Steno Journaland now...
View ArticleSteno With a Screen Reader!
Check out this fantastic video from professional Italian stenographer Daniele, who uses JAWS, a popular proprietary screen reader, alongside Plover: I've said for years that screen reader users (most...
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Highlights from the 2018 OSP Community Survey
Well, we exceeded last year's survey tally, with 103 responses! Here are a few of the highlights, but please feel free to go check out all the details at the survey site. Thank you to everyone who...
View ArticleNew Debugging Release of Dotterel
Nimble, author of Dotterel, the Android steno input app that tends to work a bit more smoothly than Brent's older Steno Keyboard app, has released a version of Dotterel with crash reporting, which is...
View ArticleOpen Source Fellowship + New Version of ROPE
The Recurse Center is offering up to $10,000 coding fellowships in NYC for people working on open source programming projects, and 50% of that money is reserved for women, trans, and nonbinary people...
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Using machine stenography in pen shorthand: Pen Steno
Longtime Plover community member and steno enthusiast Kevin Knox (codepoke) has invented a method to represent machine steno strokes using pen-shorthand-like techniques. As a fan and user of steno, I...
View ArticleRokit's Plover Lookup Webapp
Just a quick link today: Rokit's Plover Lookup app allows you to easily search for entries in the Plover dictionary from your browser and add words to a custom list for later reference or practice....
View ArticleOut with 2018, in with 2019
I spent the last few days on the couch, using Plover to do some transcription work on my Alienware laptop's NKRO keyboard with my feet up while a virtual fire crackled in the background. It was...
View ArticleCall for Contributors
Many of us are on the quite stable and feature-rich but officially pre-release Version 4 of Plover. In order to turn it into an official release, though, we need to resolve some issues (labeled with...
View ArticleSome Cool Little Dictionaries
There's been a ton of stuff happening on the Plover Discord lately, involving MIDI-based English shorthand theories, ultralight key switches, wearable Ergodox harnesses -- almost too much to keep up...
View ArticleExploring Professional Steno Machines
I wanted to point you to an article by new Plover user Thomas, where he explores various steno machines intended for professionals. It's the first in a series, and next he intends to do a survey of the...
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Exploring Custom Steno Machines
A fantastic followup to last week's article about professional steno machines, Thomas's article on Custom/DIY/Hobbyist steno machines was just released yesterday on his blog, including a write-up on...
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Michela English Theory
If you've ever wanted to do realtime on a MIDI keyboard, check out Sillabix's documentation of his newly devised Michela theory for English! I think I'm already too deep into traditional steno to be...
View ArticleSmall StenoFest Plug
If you're interested in various steno topics from a primarily professional perspective, you might find it worthwhile to pay $65 for rewatch-on-demand sessions from StenoFest, the virtual steno...
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Georgis Are Almost Here
I'm so excited about the Georgi, a fully assembled split steno/qwerty keyboard that will sell for $75 with ultra-ultralight springs. I posted about it a while back, but the boards are actually here and...
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Guest Post from Di: Typey Type Recommendations!
Typey Type RecommendationsI'm so excited to share Typey Type's new recommendations! This aims to help steno students focus their efforts: you'll know exactly which lesson to do next and how much time...
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Plover on the Sensel Morph
Check out this beautiful video from ElephantEars on the Plover Discord of the Sensel Morph writing sentences from StenoJig with a custom theraband overlay, a homegrown app, and Plover's MIDI protocol....
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Japanese Layout Plover Lessons on Typey Type!
From the ever-amazing Di of Typey Type for Stenographers: For the Japanese speaking stenographers out there, there’s a Japanese steno layout available on Typey Type using Dawson Harvey's Japanese steno...
View ArticleNYC Plover Meetup this Monday
If you're in New York City and want to join a handful of Open Steno fans in Upper Manhattan this Monday evening at 7pm, drop me a line for location information. We're gonna be showing off our machines,...
View ArticleThree Phonemes, One Syllable, One Lesson
Just a real quickie this week: A custom lesson for Typey Type by UnderSampled of the Plover Discord that contains single-syllable words with three phonemes apiece, a particularly satisfying subset of...
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