[ryanianian]

This focuses on writing that will be legible to others. More often I want notes that I can read without ambiguity and in a form that I can write about as fast as I can type.

Not mentioned in the convo so far is shorthand commonly used by legal secretaries and journalists. Mastering this is akin to switching from Qwerty to Colemak rather than just trying to improve your qwerty.

For anyone who's considering investing more in hand-written notes, look into various shorthand notations. I like Pitman but there are others depending on handedness, pen preferences, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitman_shorthand

I'm still learning, but I now use it interspersed with my cursive script and find I can read my shorthand more easily than my cursive.

(Either way: invent your own symbols for words/phrases you write a lot. Text shorthand, foreign languages, and math symbols all find their way into my notes. U for you, y for and, o for or, ∀ for all/each, etc.)

[argiopetech]

Gregg shorthand is often contrasted with Pitman, an earlier system. The 1922 edition of Gregg's book is available on archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20131101115345/http://gregg.ange...