- [<] Status Log - created:: 2023-10-23 - status-updated:: - status:: seedling - type:: thoughts - [S] Marketing - purpose:: - desc:: - connections: I need to build my arm stamina back up for writing. I'm glad I know cursive, but I wish I had understood it better and my teachers had been more laid back and had more flex and less strict prescriptiveness when I learned it. I'm still bitter about cursive... and the reasons why apply well to notetaking. I wanted more of the why and evolution of methods to really *get* it and be able to *adapt* it, i.e. now m "s" looks different from how I was initially taught how to write an "s." I still vividly remember being berated for trying to write my "5" with one stroke instead of two strokes in elementary school. I didn't really understand why "r" in cursive looks the way it does until I tried to just write all my normal letters without lifting my pen.