Byword: A blog by and for the TypeWell community

Earlier in the summer, we asked TypeWell transcribers about their work experience during the coronavirus pandemic. We expected a range of answers from “there is…

“Pass the tomato” you say? What does a tomato have to do with time management? Plenty, according to Dean Kissick, who penned a piece in…

In 2005 I decided at the age of 54 to go back to college to finish a degree I began in 1969 and never completed….

This post was updated on January 31, 2025. Beginning in May 2020, we added some additional steps to the training process for new TypeWell transcribers:…

In response to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), colleges, schools, and businesses rushed to move their courses and meetings online. During this transition,…

When someone sends TypeWell a word suggestion to add to the abbreviation dictionary, I personally look up each word in a variety of dictionaries to…
Counter to what most people might think, minimizing keystrokes is not the only goal of the TypeWell abbreviation system. We also have to consider the…

“When the Seahawks were in the Super Bowl, I don’t know how many times I heard the Seahawks mentioned, a thousand times, maybe. A person…