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I like Sans Forgetica. The idea that difficult reading and writing can help you remember something is very fresh and real to me because ๐‘ฒ ๐‘ฟ๐‘Ÿ ยท๐‘–๐‘ฑ๐‘๐‘พ๐‘ฏ ๐‘“๐‘น ๐‘จ๐‘ค ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฒ ๐‘ฏ๐‘ด๐‘‘๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฏ ๐‘‘๐‘จ๐‘•๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘ฆ๐‘•๐‘‘๐‘Ÿ ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฃ๐‘ง๐‘ค๐‘ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฐ ๐‘’๐‘บ๐‘ฎ๐‘“๐‘ณ๐‘ค๐‘ฐ ๐‘•๐‘ง๐‘ค๐‘ง๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ข๐‘ณ๐‘‘ ๐‘‘ ๐‘ข๐‘ฎ๐‘ฒ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐ๐‘ฅ๐‘ง๐‘ฅ๐‘š๐‘ณ๐‘ฎ.

In both cases, I notice it's easier to memorize things in this fashion. Although I suppose with the ยท๐‘–๐‘ฑ๐‘๐‘พ๐‘ฏ that effect will wear off if I obtain more reading & writing proficiency.



What's that shorthand?


It's Shavian (ยท๐‘–๐‘ฑ๐‘๐‘พ๐‘ฏ) which was linked here a little while ago. It's a phonetic english alphabet (so it's not shorthand, but often is shorter) with pretty good font support and a unicode allocation.

The Shavian Reddit has links to a Linux keymap and more details if you'd like it. I used Memrise's Shavian course to memorize it in about a week, and I've been reading and writing ever since.

It's delightful for task and note taking right now because the extra effort of writing to it helps me remember things.


What do you think of Quikscript?


Uh, I like it. I'm considering writing a unicode extension proposal for it. I actually do all my task journaling in Shavian and I find it a lot more tedious to write than Quickscript. Quickscript also has more useful loan-consonants (and we could extend the spec easily to grab a few more, since sounds like รฑ are much more common in English than in Shaw's day).

So I like it, but I use Shavian mostly because it's well supported. I'm in the camp that says physical writing is dead, so I wnat to get quick/read into Unicode formally.




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