Electronic Shorthand: Learn how to take digital notes

UPDATE January 2025: Free Electronic Shorthand dictionary download (find it in Section 6, Lecture 27). The course is in the process of being fully updated. All the replacement & new lectures will be uploaded by the end of January.

If you have any requests for additions or clarifications, please let me know. =========Her name was Angela. She came into my training center, ashen-faced, asking if we taught shorthand.

We did. but when she found out that the quickest course took 40 hours to learn and the shorthand could only be done with pencil (or pen) and paper, she burst into tears. Over a coffee, she shared that she was terrified she was about to lose her job as a medical administrator.

She was responsible for taking notes during multi-disciplinary team meetings composed of all kinds of health professionals (surgeons, physicians, nurses, nutritionists, physiotherapists, etc. ). She had to type the notes on a laptop, while the team members were talking - then produce the notes to be circulated to everyone the next day.