Flash Cards

This is probably _so_ obvious that everybody already does it, I certainly wouldn’t call it an epiphany. I wanted to try flash cards, and the task of writing them out just did not appeal to me.  Then I looked at the 5000 most commonly used words book which can be downloaded from angelfishy.  I printed…

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Bullet items for a to-do list (marking them complete)

I’m learning Gregg to use it in my personal organizer using the David Allen’s ‘Getting Things Done” method to self-organization and relaxed high-input, high-output productivity. Basically when I write my personal notes in my organizer, it should take a minimal amount of time! In longhand, I use a – (dash) in front of each bullet…

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In the future… a new Gregg!

I was reading the uptake of shorthand thread about how we need to modernize the system and I came across an idea– a vision dare I say! The pda and tablet market are prime for a unique text entry system. When I’m rich and influential in 10 years (as we all are going to be)…

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Learning materials for today

I’m going to try to pick this thread up from the “What’s stopping the uptake of Shorthand” thread. My thesis was that a reason that Shorthand isn’t used much today is that there are no suitable materials for today’s world. In particular, I notice that the people who express an interest in learning shorthand are,…

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Mum can you dictate for me

This is what I’ve been asking all day. She’s done it a few times but she tends to avoid it like God-worshippers avoid logic. I think the combination of having to read slowly, and having to listen to me read it back just as slow sends her to sleep. Anyway so who do you get…

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Pen repair??

And another question since at least some of the people here seem to be into writing instruments. Does anyone have recommendations of people who repair fountain pens?  I have an inexpensive Esterbrook with the 1555 Gregg point which was a really nice writer until the ink sac finally gave up.  And another Parker which I…

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Question about phrasing

I allowed myself to graduate from Chapter 1 of the Anniversary Manual last weekend :-), and I hope someone will help me with a question about phrasing.. They phrase I-am and I-have, but not I-go.  This would seem to be a logical phrasing choice, and I don’t understand why it isn’t done.  One of the things…

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Relationship between Gregg and Leslie

I got my 1936 edition of the Functional Manual Friday.  Thanks, Chuck and others, for the suggestion.  I’m reading the Anniversary Manual for theory, and the Functional Manual for reading practice. Gregg’s name does not appear as an author on the Functional Manual.  He does write a foreward, and in that he makes it very…

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