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Comment by Rhoda Collins on May 27, 2009 at 8:01

'tell me-'....any ideas on this? I did look in the book.

Comment by Rhoda Collins on May 27, 2009 at 7:46

PA-RBGS is my paragraph....but like Brenda's idea. Barb, I'm going to work on that too! Much easier to 'add' that extra SAIS!

Comment by Christine Kirley on May 27, 2009 at 7:41

Jaimie,
Anyone can view the website for iFlash. It is loopware.com or you can google iFlash. There is a free 14-day trial available. But it is Mac-based so you will need a Mac computer to run it.

Running court reporting software on a Mac allows you the stability of a Mac platform, and then you also have the Mac side for all the other amazing applications. You do need to run it through Boot Camp though, which is achieved by splitting the hard drive into a Mac side and a Windows side.

Any Mac users with questions, feel free to e-mail me at clreporting@mac.com

Comment by LeAnne Law on May 27, 2009 at 7:34

Barb, that's a cool idea. All these new ideas to play around with and see if any of them "stick" today at my depo. The likelihood is pretty darn good the doctor will quote from his chart at least once.

Comment by Christine Kirley on May 27, 2009 at 7:34

Mark,
I completely understand "mentally painful or uncomfortable." When Megan started your steno theory online, I was auditing the classes most every day and helping her and her friend Bre, whom I had set up at our house in a classroom setting. Once classes started, I was hearing how wonderful the theory was and decided, hey, I should write this way too. Well, 6 months into changing almost everything in my archaic Herman Miller theory to Kislingbury theory, I was asking, "What have I done?" It was too much at once and now I couldn't decide how to write something when it got fast. Between 6 and 9 months was horribly painful, and I was struggling big time. All of a sudden at the 9-month mark, things started clicking. And now, I have no regrets!

My advise for those wanting to change theories is this: change a little at a time and get it down, especially if you've written something a certain way for, say, 28 years, as in my case. Yikes!!

Having gone down that road, I recommend starting here, one at a time:

DZ ending for "ing"
Tucking the G
Tucking the R
Tucking the L for "ly"
Adding the IMP and INT left hand (one at a time)

Mark, thanks so much for the great theory! It really makes reporting more fun and less stressful.

Comment by Christine Kirley on May 27, 2009 at 6:54

Mark,
iFlash is only for Macs. Sorry about that. But doesn't everyone have a Mac? Sure wish the court reporting vendors would design software for the Mac. It would be phenomenal!!

Yvette,
I use PRAEF for paragraph, but I like Brenda's stroke; nice and simple.

Barb, great idea on the SAIS/SAIS.

Comment by Brenda Rogers on May 27, 2009 at 6:38

Barb, that's brilliant!

Comment by Brenda Rogers on May 26, 2009 at 23:50

Mark, what you said about feeling slowed down with your P-P and W-B strokes, even though you're using them a lot, is how I feel with my quotes. I'm just fine with the open and not too bad with open-caps. I get -BSZ in well, but feel like I hesitate closing afterwards. So even though I'm successful remembering to use them, I feel bogged down.

Can't wait for that to go away! Seems to be worse for me with punctuation marks than with actual words.

Comment by Brenda Rogers on May 26, 2009 at 23:38

I use P-F for paragraph, H-F for dash (I know it's more common for hyphen, but I'm weird), L-F for ellipses.

This is why my quotes work so well for me. :)

Comment by Brenda Rogers on May 26, 2009 at 22:27

M-N is what I learned for machine.

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