Lesshand
Lesshand is a shorthand for the 21st century. You can speed up your writing and typing by about 5% by learning just 10 of its abbreviations.1
Unlike other shorthand systems, Lesshand is lossless. This means that you can type quickly in Lesshand and have a computer program decode your shorthand to standard written English. This makes Lesshand suitable for composing emails, documents, messages, and more.
It's easy to learn Lesshand. In fact, you already know a lot of it! Lesshand uses familiar abbreviations like "u" for "you", "v" for "very", and "bc" for "because". All of its abbreviations are designed to be mnemonic. It's also completely incremental; you can learn just a few abbreviations and start applying them right away.
Check out the tour for a quick overview of Lesshand. For more information, see the documentation.
Lesshand stands for lossLESS shortHAND.
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