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Comment by LeAnne Law on May 26, 2009 at 17:03

Brenda, while you're on a roll, we need briefs for comma open quote and comma open quote nish cap.

Had to write them down to see what you gave us so far:
PH-FP - open quote
PHAOIFP - "nish cap
WR-RB - close quote
WR-RBGS - ,"
WR-FPLT - ."
STPH-RB - ?"

You have no idea how much I'd love to be able to get all this done in steno instead of editing it all.

Comment by Brenda Rogers on May 26, 2009 at 16:36

LeAnne, I literally laughed out loud at that! I'm sure we've all felt that way. SCORE! But would they appreciate it? Nooooooo! We have to wait until we get back here to crow.

Thanks, you guys. :)

Comment by LeAnne Law on May 26, 2009 at 16:33

I agree. I've got to start working on these new quote briefs -- along with all the other phrasing briefs I'm starting to use. Seems like my job now consists of how many words I can get into one stroke or how few strokes I can use to get the sentence done in. I feel like shouting, "Yes, remembered another one," but somehow I don't think the attorneys would be as excited as I am. LOL

Keep 'em coming, Brenda. You have such great ideas.

Comment by Brenda Rogers on May 26, 2009 at 16:13

Glad you like them, April. I use the vowel keys with PH-FP for when I want to cap the word after the open quote. I'm just now toying with the idea of incorporating period and question mark in the close quote. I think these are open. They go along with the comma idea:
WR-FPLT for period-close quote
STPH-RB for question mark-close quote

Now, this may not come as easily for me as the others, but trying to get the punctuation in before the quotes is a challenge -- and the they don't always tran correctly. Spacing likes to get off. I think if they can be incorporated, it would take care of that.

I'm open to other suggestions along this line, since this idea is coming to me as I type.

Comment by Christine Kirley on May 26, 2009 at 16:06

You're so funny! It is interesting how the steno brain works, isn't it? Megan and I are always throwing out briefs, much to the chagrin of our family -- although they are pretty tolerant and will even say, "Do you have a brief for that?"

Yes, all these ideas for short writing are so helpful. But sometimes it's hard to remember all the new stuff. I wanted to post some info for a new program I just downloaded today called iFlash. It's a program for creating your own index cards. I was looking for ways to help my daughter study for high school finals this week and came across iFlash. And so, of course, it parlayed into steno.

Anyway, you can create flash cards, and by using the arrows on your keyboard move to the back side of the flashcard (up arrow) for the answer, arrow right for the next card. There is even a box to check for "known" and it will calculate the percentage "known" at the end. I just made a file for steno briefs and problem strokes. It's a visual program, but you can add audio to your entries as well. You can download this program at iFlash.com. It also can be exported to your iPhone so you can study when stuck in traffic or whenever you have a few extra minutes.

So....happy writing -- and remembering -- writing short. Maybe it's just me and my age with the memorization.

Comment by April McMillan, CRR, RPR, CSR on May 26, 2009 at 16:02

Oooh, Brenda, love your thinking about the "air quotes." I've got briefs for the diff. type of quotes/punct., but yours are much easier. I'm going to try 'em out tomorrow.
Thanks :)

Comment by Tami on May 26, 2009 at 15:21

Yep, Christine, I'm admittedly a proud mama hen with lots of chickies!! :)


Keep putting them here, Brenda. I'm not happy with my quotes, so I appreciate your post.

Comment by Tami on May 26, 2009 at 15:10

I should add . . .

Try having two "driven" reporters around the dinner table with the whole fam without steno, what did or didn't tran for the day, etc., coming up. It's a true challenge at our house. :)

Guess it's a good thing he's not home very often.

Comment by Brenda Rogers on May 26, 2009 at 15:10

This is probably not the right place for this -- maybe brief club would be better -- but I'm putting it here anyway.

I use PH-FP for open quotes (think air quotes with your fingers) and WR-RB for close quotes. I've just added a comma to my close quote stroke: WR-RBGS. where-comma nor comma-where come up nearly as often as comma-close quote.

Just wanted to share. :)

Comment by Christine Kirley on May 26, 2009 at 15:06

Oh, like you're not in that camp, chickie!!

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