[autocorr]

While the first part of the article is on alternative keyboard layouts like Dvorak, the second half of the article is actually a discussion of personalized shorthand "brief forms" (somewhat confusingly called "shortcuts" in the article). It would be really cool to have a seamless autocomplete system on Linux. As far as I know there isn't one. It would be handy in my opinion when typing domain specific jargon, perhaps using something like vim's leader key but OS-wide: for example, "`sf" would expand to "star formation".