I have two things I'm focusing on with my writing right now: -P and commas. I'm still working on that "stacking SKP" business, but I got it nailed down once classes started. I put SKP in as a conflict - with "and" as both choices - just so it would show up in green every time I stroked it to remind me to stop stroking it.
For some reason it didn't help much when I was mainly doing captioning, but almost the first day I switched to more CART, I got myself doing SKP-P at least 90% of the time. Maybe it's because I don't have much time to think during captioning, and even having just a few times during CART where I got to really think about it before I wrote it allowed it to become reflexive.
I completed my project of entering conflicts for "words that typically have commas after them." I had a list of 35, and I experimented with one a day until I had gone through the whole list. Some worked with two, three, or four options, and some I could tell weren't even going to work with two. Now the problem is that I never remember they're in there, and I just write the comma anyway. They come up in green, though, which reminds me that I'm supposed to be not putting the comma in.
I actually had myself pretty well trained with "so" and "okay," until I came into a bunch of instances where the AI wasn't picking correctly and I had to delete them. I'm doing the best with "well" and "all right"; I'm pretty sure none of the others have stuck at all. I seem to write "therefore," "however," and "in other words" the most, though.
Speaking of conflicts, I have an awesome one that works great: day to day versus day-to-day. The software is really good at knowing which is which, probably since one is just some words and the other is an adjective. I bet there are other things I could do that with (once-in-a-lifetime maybe?), but for now I'm just happy with "day to day."
Another thing I'm working on is waiting until the new sentence starts to put punctuation for the last one, so I can avoid when I think they're done, and I put a period, but then the next thing they say isn't a sentence on its own. It's hard to wait, though. Lots of times I can delete the period that turns out not to belong, but also lots of times I don't have time.
I also had to change my outline for a question mark. I think the S- key is stiff on this IE. It won't matter since I'm getting a new one, but I was almost never hitting the S- in STPH* for my question mark, and it kept coming out as N. I had the probablem occasionally with the LS, but it started to get really bad with the IE. I initially made a conflict, but the software wasn't choosing correctly often enough, and I would erase the N and re-write it three times and still get N, so I had to do something. It was getting bad! I wound up just making my question mark STPH*P, and I was so relieved to have a way to actually get a question mark to come out that I picked it up almost instantly.
The strange thing is that I drag the S in weird places on the IE, too, probably because I have the sensitivity set low since the key is stiff. Maybe it's not so strange, after all. The worst is when I think I've written "he," but it actually came out "she," and I don't notice it until it's too late. I keep getting "snot" for "not," too. I hope it's all better on the new machine!
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