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DIY StenoMod Stand Breakdown
Check out this great post on Martin's StenoBlog about his homemade StenoMod tripod, with lots of pictures and detailed specs to help you build your own!
View ArticleModding a MIDI for Michela (Italian Steno Video)
This video is from a few months ago, but I realized I never wound up posting it here! Sillabix, the OSP's resident Italian Steno expert, demonstrates how to modify an affordable MIDI keyboard to make...
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Photos from the NYC Mechanical Keyboard Meetup!
The NYC Mechanical Meetup was last week, and there were at least three steno people in attendance: Me, Weiben, and Malcolm, all frequenters of the Plover Discord. I gave a short talk on steno. Malcolm...
View ArticleTypey Type Top 100 and 1000 Drills, Plus Blur
Typey Type for Stenographers keeps getting better. Now there are drills for the top 100 and top 1000 words, as well as a new custom lesson feature, and a fascinating "blur" feature, which allows you to...
View ArticleNew Bugfix Weekly
A new bugfix weekly has been released, so if you have encountered any of the issues below, you should probably give it a try.Windows: fix C++ Redistributable DLL error (#957)Windows: fix emoji output...
View ArticleNew Version of ROPE
I blogged about the first version of ROPE back in October 2017. Now it's been updated to ROPE version 2.1. Its creator explains: ROPE (Remembering Outlines in Plover more Easily) is a guide to learning...
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A Double Feature from Di
Not only has Di updated Typey Type again: You can learn briefs shown as steno diagrams or as textPractice writing multi-syllable words with doubled consonant lettersUse a wider layout so you can see...
View ArticleScript Sending with Plover and Vim
I had a big screen gig tonight, and while I'd gotten a script in advance, I knew there would be a lot of ad libbing, so I planned to write it all on my steno machine, with the script displayed on my...
View ArticleSteno Specs in the QMK Docs
Both my dad and my eldest brother are electronic engineers, and my dad taught me to solder when I was a kid, but I haven't tried my hand at it in decades, and these days I'm too intimidated (plus I...
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Skell: Drill any word using real sentences
Just a quick one today from niten on the Plover Discord's useful links channel: Skell, which allows you to enter a word and get a ton of English sentences containing that word. I remember back when I...
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DIY Steno Hardware Spotlight: The Specter
User incognition on the Plover Discord completed a DIY steno machine project a while back, and I realized I never wound up featuring it here. Incognition has promised me a guest post with lots of...
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More DIY Hardware!
It's been a bumper crop week for Plover-compatible DIY hardware! First, a nice color-coded mod for a keyboard which claimed to be 19-key rollover, but that unfortunately only included WASD and function...
View ArticleSuggestions for 2018 Community Survey
It's time for our annual Open Steno Community Survey! Last year we got 91 responses, which isn't bad, but considering that the Discord is now up to 952 members, I'm hoping we'll get substantially more...
View Article2018 Open Steno Community Survey is Live!
Please take the 2018 survey here, and feel free to forward the link to anyone you know who's part of the Open Steno community in any way! I'm really looking forward to reading all of the responses and...
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Plover + MIDI + LEGO!!!
Check out these AMAZING photos from the San Giorgio Brick Expo in Italy last weekend! Professional Italian stenographer and Plover user Sillabix posted these on the Discord yesterday, and I'm utterly...
View ArticlePlover Theory is now The Art of Chording
Ted's work-in-progress textbook, previously known as Plover Theory and hosted on Gitbooks, now has a new title and URL: The Art of Chording, at https://artofchording.com. He's also still taking...
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Tiny Steno Board 2 - New DIY Machine
Check out this beautiful DIY steno machine, the Tiny Steno Board 2, by community member SashaK! Sasha writes: The idea was stolen from Charley, the internals - from OLKB/Planck project. I stumbled upon...
View ArticleLast Call for Survey + Typey Type Dictionaries
Only six more survey responses needed to exceed last year's tally. Come on, steno friends! You can do it!! I'll probably close the survey fairly soon, so please get in a response if you can. It only...
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3D Printed Stentura Laptop Mount + Custom Word Range Drills
Check out this cool 3D Printed laptop mount for a Stentura 400 SRT by community member repalviglator!Front viewSide viewClose-up of 3D printed mountAlso, new from Typey Type: Gutenberg sentences using...
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Plover in Peoria!
Check out this great dispatch from Kathryn Dittmeier, the coordinator of the Judicial Reporting Program at Midstate College in Peoria, Illinois: Thanks to Plover software, a closet full of Stentura...
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