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Welcome to the Steno Wizard's Realtime Journey!






Remember when life was simple and all you had to do was make a selection on what your steno really meant? Those days are long gone.





Reporters must get themselves into top realtime form to compete in today's job market. This is my contribution toward ALL of us reaching the realtime goal.



My Steno Wizardry concept is based on the idea that writing realtime actually doesn't require magic -- just hard work, determination, and a little bit of FUN imagination.



My hope is my sharing of the ideas I've incorporated into my realtime journey will assist you in yours.



Saturday, October 30, 2010

Picture it: Maid and Made


Steno Wizard has been working on ways to help instantly recall those steno conflict resolutions.

For example, made PHAEUD is obviously common.   A good way to write it might be by the spelling, but it has been so ingrained into the Steno Wizard's writing since theory days that Steno Wizard has a really hard time trying to convince the brain and the fingers to go with PHAED.  So...as a result, Steno Wizard inserts the asterisk key for maid and strokes it PHA*EUD.  Steno Wizard tries to imagine that a maid is working to make things sparkly clean and -- ta-da! -- an asterisk is the answer.   Sure, the word maid doesn't come up much, but we want to have a sure-fire way to KNOW that it's ready when needed, and the ol' brain knows immediately what to instruct the fingers to do.
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