User Theories

User theories are full or partial open source stenographic theories developed by members of the community and shared with the community for free. Authors typically share dictionaries that correspond with the theory that the community can use by adding them to Plover.

Some user theories are modifications of existing theories which have evolved far enough to be labeled as a new theory, and some cover only one aspect of stenography (e.g. number input, phrasing, or fingerspelling). Many of them are works in progress.

This page includes an abbreviated list of published user theories commonly discussed by the community. To add one to the list, we recommend it being a thoroughly developed, unique idea, and published for the benefit of the community. If adding to the list, please also create a corresponding theory page.

Full English Theories

• Lapwing by Aerick
• Rosella by Masked Lapwing
• Tadpole by Harri
• StenoBee by Tink

Full Non-English Theories

Designed for the default WSI layout:

• TocKiTiengViet by huynhtrankhanh (Vietnamese)
• stan-italiano by stanographer (Italian)
• stanespanol by stanographer (Spanish)
• hind_plover_dictionary by winston (Hindi Devanagari)

Designed for other layouts:

• plover-france-dict by Aziz Yemloul (French, Grandjean)

For dedicated foreign language steno layouts, see the steno layouts & supported languages page

Number Theories

• jeff-numbers by Tharelia
• Harri-numbers by Harri

Fingerspelling Theories

• Shrimple by Harri

Phrasing Theories

• jeff-phrasing by Tharelia
• lynn-phrasing by lynn
• Jade's Phrasing Dictionary by Jade-GG

Symbol Theories

• Emily's Symbol Dictionary by EPLHREU

Modifier Theories

Typically encompassing typing things such as shortcuts, arrow keys, Ctrl, Alt, Shift, etc.

• Abby's Left Hand Modifiers Dictionary by Abkwreu
• jeff-modifiers by Tharelia
• Emily's Modifier Dictionary by EPLHREU
• Left Hand Modifier Keys by Achim Siebert

Movement Theories

• Cross Platform Movement (dictionary) by Thea Morin
• Di’s Mac Movement by Diana MacDonald
• Left-side Mac Movement by Achim Siebert

Vim Theories

• Di’s Vim Commands by Diana MacDonald
• Vim Captioning by Mirabai Knight

Other Computer Usage Dictionaries

• General Command Line by Diana MacDonald

Other Dictionaries

• UK Spellings by Thea Morin
• Emoji by Thea Morin
• Arrows by Thea Morin
• Pokémon by Thea Morin
• Markdown by Thea Morin
• Spectacle by Thea Morin
• Unspaced Punctuation by Diana MacDonald
• JorWat's British Words, a dictionary of words and phrases found on the Wikipedia page, "Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States".

Stanley Sakai's Steno dictionaries

Stanley Sakai's repository on GitHub - Stanley's Steno Dictionaries

Language	Description
braille.json	A starter dictionary for steno-based Braille input.
smalldict.json	Starter dictionary Mirabai gave Stan as a template (not actively updated or used).
stan-italiano.json	Dictionary started when doing an Italian class. Not very developed.
stanespanol.json	Main Spanish steno dictionary.
stanmain.json	His main English dictionary.
stanplover.json	Additional entries to correct formatting errors caused by RTF -> JSON conversion.

Diana MacDonald's repository

Diana MacDonald's dictionaries. These include symbols, currency, smart punctuation, design, and coding dictionaries.