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RKDinOKC · RKDinOKC's Garage

Hey hey. Been really busy with that work thing. New boss took vacation and I've had to cover.

When I take notes I print instead of writing cursive and draw pictograms and put things in boxes and connect them with arrows for flow etc. Found I could print just as fast as cursive, but the main thing I could actually read it later. The pictograms and illustration stuff helped with the recall. Note taking was part of the Evelyn Wood Speed Reading Course I took the summer before college.

There are short cuts to printing to make it faster. For a while after learning Graffiti for handwriting recognition on my Palm phone I printed in Graffiti minimizing the strokes for letters.

I did have a chem teacher back in the day that required copies of lab notes in four colors with each color having a specific meaning. However you took your notes you had to turn in the colored stuff that he would review, grade, and return so you could study from them.

porsche4life · porsche4life's Garage

I write painfully slow in print...

Painfully....

Geronimo '74 · 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by slodave

How do you write vertically like that?

Don't laugh I actually do write almost completely vertically.
I'm a lefty and when I was young I used to drag my hand through the stuff I had just written... the teacher told me to put my paper a bit slanted on my desk (rotate it 'bout 45 degress CCW)
Over the years I kept on increasing that angle up to a point where I can now write completely vertically and my handwriting looks like that of a 2 year old on PCP if I put my paper horizontally again....

This may strike some of you as a bit weird... I understand...

Morning my friends!!

slodave · slodave's Garage

And you say we are weird?

Geronimo '74 · 10-25-2010, 10:13 PM

Ok, I'll admit to having a few quirks myself... But only a few!

RKDinOKC · RKDinOKC's Garage

As a draftsman doing engineering drawings for a few years I learned to print very very neatly and quickly. I digitized my printing into a font and it is being used on all the CAD drawings today. As a matter of interest the first few drafting drawing lessons in school are "How to Print".

To print quickly you have to think like cursive, but get off your lazy butt and lift the pen between letters. It's faster because you can go in a straight line from the end of one letter to the beginning of the next. You can also make short cuts like beginning A B D H K M N P R at the bottom and drawing up making the first stroke from bottom to top instead of beginning the first stroke from top to bottom. Example for writing A, draw / from bottom to top, then \ from top to bottom. It is one less stroke than / from top to bottom then back up to the top and \ from top to bottom. It's like most people make a W and not lifting the pen, down, up, down, up.

slodave · slodave's Garage

My writing sucks. I hated having to learn the letters for architectural drawings. Probably one of the reasons I dropped the class.

Geronimo '74 · 10-25-2010, 10:25 PM

Any of you know stenography?

slodave · slodave's Garage

That another one of your quirks?

RKDinOKC · RKDinOKC's Garage

Instead of taking accounting, typing, and steno in HS I took Electronics, Band, Orchestra, Music Theory, Stage Band, Calculus, and Chemisty. Was also one of 3 students with access to the school system IBM main frame to do basic programming over teletype terminals. Yep, a real live calculator carrying band geek nerd.