So I was looking for ways to optimize note taking, prompted by @Sandra ‘s mention of Swedish shorthand writing. I found a lot of resources on English shorthand. Some resources on other languages. And literally no resources on Russian.
So it seems that a lot of shorthand effort was put into re-tracing the typical Cyrillic letters in more optimized ways. Called “скоропись” (literally “fast writing”) and focused on calligraphy that minimizes strokes yet still retains the overall look of the letters. I thought that this is as far as Russian writing optimization got.
But! It seems that this absence of Russian shorthand on the internet is just me searching wrong. In two ways:
• There’s no Russian term for “shorthand,” and the term used doesn’t intersect with “shorthand” really. The term used is “stenography!”
• There was a lot of effort in optimizing stenography in Russian! Here’re fun (albeit chaotic) slides mentioning all the efforts: https://en.ppt-online.org/458740
The biggest and most respected system seems to be Sokolov’s GESS. I might as well learn it!
