BREVITY: Write Simply

Fewer keys. Simpler execution. A documented average of 55% fewer keys across 300 transformations.

You don't switch theories. You change 10–20% of your most common words — the ones you write hundreds of times a day — and keep everything else that already works.

Four techniques that cut keys where you write most:

• Skeletal Writing — consonant frameworks that cut keys without losing the word
• Partial Outlines — your highest-frequency terms, stripped to what's necessary
• Anchor Words — one reliable form instead of a memorized list
• The Chainlink Method — phrases built as they come, no guessing what the speaker says next

BREVITY was designed for the fifth hour of a hostile deposition, not a speed contest. Every unnecessary key is work your fingers don't need to do.

Tom Fernicola has been a working court reporter for 37 years. He built BREVITY to reduce unnecessary mental and physical demands during the job — the same record, with less required to produce it.