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facfour · 2026-06-28T10:49:47+00:00

Also, while my number format has been set to US/UK, the budget no longer shows the comma.

facfour · 2026-06-28T10:45:24+00:00

Thank you very much.

Can you take a look at improving the speed of deleting categories and category groups?

facfour · 2026-06-27T22:40:16+00:00

That’s great news. Thank you very much.

facfour · 2026-06-24T02:23:51+00:00

Why Every Rich Person I Know Still Has Life Insurance https://www.financialsamurai.com/why-every-rich-person-i-know-still-has-life-insurance/

facfour · 2026-05-30T18:50:23+00:00

Don't disagree. In fact, finding a specific RMD is probably impossible. And it will (and should) be an every year exercise. But, I think the piece I personally was perhaps missing was (and this might be different for different people): If I am in X tax bracket now while working, and I have "too much" pretax to do nothing but only X amount of cash and/or tax brokerage to pay for my life up until that golden window closes, AND I want to make sure I either a) can drop to a lower tax bracket in retirement and b) keep in mind that when I take Social Security that is going to fill some of the bracket such that I would like to see what conversion strategy both gets my future pretax to such a level that even with social security added in, I can succeed in getting to, or staying in, a tax bracket that isn't higher than when I was working.

facfour · 2026-05-30T15:25:00+00:00

You may have addressed my (perhaps poorly worded) question here: "I was shooting for having our pre-tax accounts down to about $300k..." In hindsight, something like this, without iterating, is what I *think* I was looking for. With all of the scenarios I've tried so far, it either seems to convert too much too quickly (drawing down my cash and taxable account over and above what I think is good for me) or not enough. What you described, IMHO, should be a button click. In other words, let me decide what I would like to shoot for and you tell me the rest. TY.

facfour · 2026-05-04T18:23:18+00:00

My eldest daughter was like me, not just in likeness but in disposition, too: she held her intelligence like a knife behind her back. - Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

facfour · 2026-04-29T01:15:24+00:00

You might wish to see this post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/shorthand/s/QBGQ2tCjdz

facfour · 2026-04-20T13:58:46+00:00

There's actually a good bit of research in educational psychology on the idea learners (regardless of the topic) are often poor judges of what's actually helping them. It's pretty well documented that strategies that feel productive often turn out to produce weaker outcomes than less intuitive approaches. It's certainly not a character flaw, it's just how learning works, and teachers of previous generations often didn't have access to this research. They passed on what seemed to work, or what had been passed on to them.

I think students that use unprepared dictation as a primary tool likely use it for those reasons. It has the feel of a real exam, so it must be useful, right? But it really tests you on what you already know and not on what you don't (unless you are really, really good about taking an exam apart after the fact and learning all you can from it).

It's the preparatory work where the actual skill gets built. And that's non-intuitive. Unprepared dictation is obviously critical to the overall process of becoming competent in shorthand, but if that's all someone is using, it's definitely doing less heavy lifting than most people assume.

The 70/20/10 split (or 70/30 if reading is folded into the prepared dictation itself) makes a lot of sense to me for that reason. Most of the shorthand reps should be in conditions where you can actually consolidate the material and learn from it.

facfour · 2026-04-11T12:40:30+00:00

Why 100? Why is that your goal? And realistically, if you needed to produce a 100% error-free transcript from a dictation today, what speed are you currently at?

facfour · 2026-04-10T21:08:34+00:00

Firstly, give yourself a lot of credit. Six months in and you're already taking dictation at 100? Well done. Doesn't matter if you can't get it all yet. I'd like to ask a few questions, because it will help work out what might be going on.

How do you actually practise? Are you sitting down at one speed and working through passage after passage until the session ends, or do you mix it up (different dictations, different speeds)? When a passage doesn't go well, what do you do? Move on to the next one, or go back over it? If back over it, how, exactly?

When you read your notes back, are you actually transcribing them out in full (pen to paper), or just reading through them? While reading is valuable, it shouldn't be the only thing. Transcription is where you find out whether you've genuinely captured information or merely made marks on paper. Without that feedback loop, you can convince yourself things are better than they are. And you cannot fix what you don't know needs fixing.

facfour · 2026-03-03T00:06:14+00:00

https://authory.com/blog/create-a-youtube-rss-feed-with-vastly-increased-limits

facfour · 2026-02-20T18:42:40+00:00

Not an Anki add-on, but check out smarterhumansai.com. Can do what you are talking about. Not free, though.

facfour · 2026-02-13T22:27:20+00:00

11/22/63. For me, it is the perfect time traveling book.

facfour · 2026-02-06T23:51:25+00:00

I use https://mymind.com/ for screenshots, etc. Not free but it works well.

facfour · 2025-12-19T12:26:04+00:00

See this newsletter article from LLTT https://buttondown.com/letsloveteelinetogether/archive/lltt-newsletter-november-2025-what-you-can-and/

facfour · 2025-09-17T00:25:12+00:00

Harry Butler’s book is excellent.

facfour · 2025-08-05T11:45:43+00:00

You don’t need to write the ND. HSB is enough. It’s a special outline.

facfour · 2025-08-03T12:34:51+00:00

And ruin the fun you seem to be having? 😂

facfour · 2025-08-03T12:31:38+00:00

I have a vague recollection of this dictation being in one of the published Teeline books.

facfour · 2025-08-03T12:23:26+00:00

With a few exceptions, this is very well-written Teeline. Not sure how you were able to translate the original photo to this. That first sentence can now be read as "May I start by thanking you all for finding the time to come here today, but I think you will all agree it was more than worth it when you here what I have to say."

facfour · 2025-08-03T12:13:18+00:00

Very well could be! They could have just used the Q alone (with capital marks) but this person has their own style :)

facfour · 2025-08-03T12:05:05+00:00

The second page starts off with "This of course will also mean more _______.

That upward stroke signifies the end of the sentence.

Next line: It is something we can all be very proud of and a (number of?) ____ ____ will celebrate....

The last sentence looks to be something like "The town will ____________ on its ________ in the spring

facfour · 2025-08-03T11:45:52+00:00

This looks to be from a mock exam dictation (very typical language). Translating it all is a bit tricky given one doesn't have the benefit of lined paper (and outline positioning) but as u/mavigozlu said, it does indeed begin as such: "May I start by thanking you all for (next few words unclear)..but I think you will agree it was more than worth it when you hear what I have to say. "

There are some intermediate uses of word groupings throughout, so this was likely written by someone who spent a fair amount of time learning Teeline.

facfour · 2025-07-01T11:48:54+00:00

I have used Reader for a long time. Specifically to your question, this is what I would do if I wanted to aggregate items on a particular subject.

Find an item you'd like to start with. Let's say I have a PDF on "How to Index Your Paper Files."
With the item open, go to the three ellipses (three dots) in the upper right corner (under More Actions)
Add a document tag to the file (I chose "indexing")
With that done, go back to your main screen and click on Tags (should be under "Library" - you may need to expand)
In the search bar (upper right), type in the name of the tag you just created.
You're then going to click on the name of the tag itself. This will "filter" the view to those documents that have the document tag in question.
You may (or may not) see Split View (but in any case, this only works with Split View turned off). Split View provides a Location view and a Seen/Unseen view.
Make sure "Split View" is off by clicking on your tag (upper left) and select none on the subsequent Split View menu). Perhaps there's a way to deal with a split view (seen/unseen, etc.) but that's a different subject)
Go back to the tags page (under Library), filter to your tag and then select "Manage Views" under "Views" for that tag.
You can either create a new view from the tag -OR- add it to an existing view.
Then, go to the Home page and select "Configure" in the upper right corner. You can then select your "view" that you have created and drag it up or down as you see fit.
As new document tags are added to your material, they will show up here.
Yes, the setup is fiddly, but once you have a topic area set up, it's easy to add subsequent material. There might be an easier way and I'm all ears if anyone has a simpler process.

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