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Quite a few years ago I relearned cursive so that I could more quickly enter text into a computer.

Yes, that's right, (write?) . . .anyway, tablet computers have had quite good handwriting recognition software for quite some time. I found that they make better work out of sloppy cursive than out of an engineers block letters (which are slow, btw). Anyway, they must have designed that software with doctors in mind. I'm always amazed at how well it nails the slop.

Even my mobile phones have had the feature for years. I write all sorts of notes and such with it. I'm a bit conflicted about the newer phones which have speech to text. That sounds good, but I can imagine times where I don't want to speak out loud, what notes I'm putting down. ...and the newer gen of phones have cap-sense screens, which usually are not fine enough resolution for the hand-writing app. ...giving a one or the other choice. :-/
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