Name: How to Take Faster Notes - College Info Geek
Uploaded: 2016-03-01T09:27:15.000Z
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I want to show you   something cool that I can do

So I get a lot of email, and   for a lot of these emails,

I have to type the  exact same responses.

I have this cool little Chrome  extension called Gorgias

that lets me bind templates   to little keywords

So if somebody emails me    and, say, they want me to

do something and I just  don't have the time to do it,

instead of typing out a long   apology and an explanation,

I can just type the   word busy, hit tab,

and the entire response will  pop out in less than a second.

Over the past few months,  I've been steadily developing

more and more templates as the need arises,

it's already saved me over 5 hours of typing,

Well, on paper we have    shorthand writing systems.

These are systems that vastly  cut down on the characters

The process of writing in shorthand is called stenography,

and it's an art that basically  every journalist had to learn

before the widespread  availability of  these little devices.

The origins of shorthand date  back to the 4th century B.C.

Though even before that, scribes in ancient Egypt

which let them write much   more quickly than they could

Fast forward to the past couple of centuries

and two systems became dominant in the shorthand sphere:

the Pitman shorthand method and the Gregg shorthand method.

That is, their alphabets aren't one-to-one approximations

Rather, they're symbols  designed to express how words

Masters of these two systems have been known

to be able to write at 200    words per minute or more,

which means they can write basically anything

but the problem here is    that both of these systems

and, as a student, I'm betting  you probably don't have

that time to dedicate to learning one of them.

For example, here is, as best as I can write it

with 10 minutes of practice, the statement,

"There is a ninja    standing right behind you.

Now, I'd wager it'd take you   a bit of time to figure out

how to read let alone be able  to write it professionally.

So on one side of the    problem, writing in Gregg

or Pitman shorthand takes    way too long to learn,

but on the other side  writing in longhand

is painful for your wrist    and simply takes too long

Well, actually I've got two solutions in mind.

The first one is to use a simpler shorthand writing system.

One option is alphabetic shorthand systems

like speedwriting or   personal shorthand.

Now, these are systems that use the standard Latin alphabet

and while some shorthand purists may turn their noses up

at them like snooty  aristocratic gentleman

and while, indeed, you may   not be able to write as fast

as you could with Gregg or    Pitman, the trade-off here

is that they take far,  far less time to learn

Another option is to use a system with characters

that do differ from that standard Latin alphabet,

but that are easier to learn   than the phonetic alphabets

The most famous example I can  think of is called teeline,

which is actually still used  by a lot of journalists today.

But an even newer example   that I came across recently

to be able to be learned within 15 minutes.

So here's that same  statement from before

and I have to say that while  it took me probably 10 minutes

to puzzle out how to   write it in Gregg,

it was really, really    easy to write it in Ford,

and I found myself being able  to memorize the new characters

The other solution is to create what amounts to

your own shorthand system,    and this is an idea

I've had kicking around in my  brain for a long, long time,

and it's actually why I made  this video in the first place

because if you're the only one  who's gonna review your notes

and no one else is gonna need to look at them,

then why not write them    in the most efficient way

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