[riffraff]

My mom went to a professional school for "company secretary" or something like that in the 70s and learned shorthand notation (and typing). I recall trying to learn from her books as a kid, it's not that hard.

But she never seemed to actually use it later in her life (she still touch typed tho!).

I wonder how useful shorthand is in these days when cheap recording devices are available in everyone's pocket.

Maybe people who keep hand written diaries still use it?

[Steve44]

My mother-in-law was taught shorthand in the 1960s UK and still uses it regularly. We work together in a family business and any meetings we go to she'll jot notes down using it, the amazing thing [to me anyway] is that she can read it afterwards!

It's a fantastic skill but so rare to see these days, it was mainly used by secretaries dictating notes to then type up I think. Now we are our own typists, it's largely relegated to history.

[kstrauser]

I keep a handwritten journal. I definitely do not use it.

[flandish]

Funny but I do use it. My license signature is even in Gregg