Steno Pedagogy: Kindergarten Edition
My kid turned five today! At his birthday party yesterday, a friend of his gave him a board game called Zingo Word Builder. We played with it together a little bit this morning, and he didn't seem to...
View ArticleTokaku's Fantastic Steno Intro Video
Okay, I'm extremely late to the game here, for a number of reasons (zero childcare for a year and a half, Discord no longer notifying users of new posts when servers get above a certain size, turning...
View ArticleAstroType, a Gorgeous New Steno Learning Game
Shane Jonas on the Plover Discord recently released AstroType on Itch. Shane says: Astrotype is a pixel art typing game aimed to challenge your speed. See how far you can make it fighting monsters with...
View ArticlePlover for Legal Material
Paul Fioravanti has written a really nice blog post about using Plover to transcribe legal material, incorporating principles from Platinum Steno. I'm not very familiar with Platinum Steno personally...
View ArticlePlover and Toki Pona Meet Again!
Back in 2010, very, very early in Plover's development, Sonja Lang, (esteemed linguist and creator of Toki Pona, an extremely simple and elegant constructed language) joined the Plover Google Group....
View ArticleQMK Extensions for Hobbyist Stenoboards
Longtime steno friend and community contributor Joshua has just released a package of extensions to QMK (the popular open source mechanical keyboard firmware) that enables first-up chord-send and...
View ArticleHacktoberfest 2021
Lead dev Ted writes: Hello fellow stenography enthusiasts!It's that special time of year again where open source contributions get you either a cool shirt or trees planted. I love this time of year...
View ArticleBack the Uni on Kickstarter!
A campaign for version 3 of the Uni steno keyboard has been launched! The Uni Kickstarter page contains videos of the board in action, along with other pertinent information for potential backers. It...
View ArticleNew Pre-Release!
There's a new pre-release version of Plover with a ton of incremental improvements over at the Plover GitHub, with more soon to come. Amazing lead devs Ted and Benoit Pierre (plus several additional...
View ArticlePersonal Dictionaries In Typey Type
Diana, creator of Typey Type, has just enabled a cool new experimental feature that allows users to get hints based on their own dictionary entries while using Typey Type.She says: It’s experimental...
View ArticleUni Kickstarter Stretch Goals
The Uni Kickstarter met its initial goal, but it's still active for another month, and it's only a few thousand dollars away from reaching its first stretch goal! If the campaign reaches $30,000 in...
View ArticlePluvier: A French Dictionary Generator
Vermoot of the Plover Google Group and Discord has started a project to generate a LaSalle-compatible French dictionary for use with Plover. From the description on the project's Github page: This...
View ArticlePractice Steno Using Z-Type
Z-type is a free webapp that lets you practice typing in the form of a fast paced arcade-style space shooter, not unlike Typestriker, the game that I played in the early days of steno school and which...
View ArticleNew Chapter in Art of Chording!
Lead Dev Ted, author of the illustrious free steno textbook Art of Chording, writes:Art of Chording, up until now, has been focused on what you can do with a single stroke, but now I'm going to tackle...
View ArticleA Week Left in the Uni Campaign
The Uni Kickstarter has raised almost $50,000, meeting its initial goal and unlocking two stretch goals (lighter springs and a DIY kit). If it can raise an additional $10,000 and change in the next 7...
View ArticleNice Write-Up on Stenonymous
A longtime friend and ally of the Open Steno Project, the dauntless professional court reporter behind the industry blog Stenonymous just gave us a really lovely shout-out. There's a lot going on over...
View ArticleNew Plover Practice Exercises!!
Plover Discord member plants has just released a great new learning resource called Plover Practice Exercises! Not only does it offer a brisk walkthrough of the basics of Plover theory with inline...
View ArticleBeautiful Graphical Steno Explainers
Look at the gorgeous Steno Explainers series, a page of immaculately designed infographics demonstrating steno theory, fingerspelling, phrasing, and symbol principles in multiple languages, realized by...
View ArticleStenodisplay Font
Kaoffie has a new updated Stenodisplay Font with a nice web-based demo up on Github. Great for creating steno documentation and learning tools!
View ArticleWord Tray for Plover
Wow, Kaoffie is on a roll, with two consecutive shout-outs on the Plover Blog! This week it's Word Tray for Plover: Word Tray is a GUI plugin that automatically looks up efficient outlines for words...
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