shorthand is an important skill to learn to keep up with lecturers when taking notes. Shorthand has also proven to be useful in many lines of work. Personal assistants and secretaries use for it for minute taking, while journalists use it when documenting a news story, and a vital skill for journalists in all sectors who need an easily accessible and permanent note of every conversation in their working day", the organisation insists. any system of rapid writing using symbols or shortcuts that can be made quickly to represent letters of the alphabet, words, or phrases,. – think about how hard it would be to get an accurate recording of someone speaking at their natural pace using longhand. It’s virtually impossible. Plus, if you need to go back through your notes, you will find going through your shorthand notes a lot quicker than going through a digital recorder to what you need.

Transcribing notes from shorthand is, as you would imagine, an awful lot quicker than doing so from a recording.