Aerick's Complete Steno Learning Video Series
If you haven't yet checked out Aerick's Plover and Steno YouTube Playlist, you really should! It's a beautiful series of videos breaking down steno principles, with accurately edited English closed...
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EcoSteno Prototype Review!
The lovely people at Nolltronics just sent me a prototype of their new EcoSteno, and it's a gorgeous machine!! Full disclosure: I'm extremely biased in favor of tented machines, and like the TinyMod...
View ArticleA Whirlwind of Plover Activity!
After a well-earned hiatus, our dauntless developers Ted and Benoit-Pierre have immersed themselves once more in the Plover codebase, resolving issues, fixing bugs, thwarting security vulnerabilities,...
View ArticleEmily's Steno Symbol System
Check out this great Python dictionary for typing symbols in steno in a systematic way!Emily says it allows for "consistent symbol input with specification of attachment and capitalisation in one...
View ArticleThe Steno Grind
There's a new web app called The Steno Grind, designed to help users drill lessons from Ted's marvelous steno textbook The Art of Chording. It's slick, simple, and fun. Many thanks to Noah for this...
View ArticlePlover + Melani + Spanish
I last posted about a Spanish system for Plover back in March, but here's an alternate one, this time using the MIDI keyboard-based Melani system, originally developed for Italian. Co-author Noelia...
View ArticleTwo Vietnamese Steno Systems!
I discussed two Spanish systems for Plover last week, and this week, I've got two Vietnamese systems for you:Plover_Vi by user202729, and Plover_Viet by illustrious steno vidder Aerick. I don't know...
View ArticleTed's StenoFest Talk
Today on Ted's Patreon Page, he posted a link to his StenoFest 2019 talk on YouTube, along with the following:I recently posted my StenoFest talk from February 2019. It was a talk aimed at professional...
View ArticleSensel Morph + Steno?
an interesting thread on GitHub about Ted's attempts to make the Sensel Morph (a touch-sensitive digital pad that's intended to be customizable for a multitude of purposes) into a working steno...
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Mysterious New Steno Hardware Teaser
I recently received a free prototype of an amazingly innovative new piece of steno hardware that will soon be the focus of a crowdfunding campaign. Unfortunately I've been swamped with captioning work...
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First Impressions of the Steno-Flex
The Steno-Flex is soon to be live on Crowd Supply, a crowdfunding platform that's very dear to my heart, because it was founded by Josh Lifton, Plover's first developer! I'm not yet sure whether the...
View Article3D Printed Flat Keycaps at the StenoKeyboards Store
The marvelous Uni keyboard (as mentioned manytimespreviously) is currently sold out, but Peter's StenoKeyboards.com Store is currently selling both white and black 3D printed keytoppers that are flat...
View ArticleTake the 2021 Open Steno Project Community Survey!
The 2021 OSP Community Survey has been open for a few days already and already has 78 responses as of this post, but I wanted to make sure to post it here as well, to make sure its reach is as wide as...
View ArticleHobbyist Steno Machine Spreadsheet
Wow, look at this cool spreadsheet laying out all the specs of various hobbyist steno machines! I guess this has been around since May, but I only spotted it when it was recently linked to on the...
View ArticleFantastic Splitography Video Review
Watch Aerick's wonderful video review of the Splitography! It's four months old, so I'm pretty late to the party here, but it's really thorough and well thought out, with detailed comparisons to the...
View ArticleTypey-Type Keeps Adding New Stuff
The amazing DiDoesDigital just keeps making Typey-Type better and better. From her most recent newsletter: In the last few months, I’ve made a bunch of new Typey Type lessons: Top verbsTwo Hanged Women...
View ArticleLovely Plover Tutorial for Mechanical Keyboard Fans
Wow, check out this detailed write-up of reasons mechanical keyboard enthusiasts should try steno, plus how to get ZSA keyboards configured to use Plover using Oryx: The ZSA Keyboard Configurator, by...
View ArticleNew Steno Dictionary for Emacs
Lorem Ipsum writes on the Plover Google Group: I just pushed a version 1.0 of a dictionary for use with Emacs. It provides only modifiers for the English alphabet right now. In order to get a release...
View ArticleGuide to Upgrading Your Dictionary
The marvelous Aerick has written a comprehensive guide to upgrading your Plover dictionaries from ones that work with Plover v3 to ones that work with Plover v4. If you're still on v3, please do...
View ArticleNew Plugin: Plover Number Format
Plover Number Format is a new plugin (pull request forthcoming) that allows you to format a series of numbers retroactively into times, phone numbers, social security numbers, Roman numerals, and...
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