New Versions of Popular Plugins

Mkrnr writes:

New versions of `plover-combo` and `plover-svg-layout-display` have been released that now support Plover v5 and can be installed via the plugins manager. Thanks a lot Kaoffie for donating your awesome plugins to the Open Steno Project!

Fill out the 2025 Open Steno Community Survey!

Our wonderful lead dev mkrnr writes:

The 2025 Open Steno Community Survey is out!

The survey is organized into five sections:
1. Your background in (and outside) stenography
2. Current and future stenography usage
3. Usage of and feedback on Open Steno learning materials
4. Hardware usage and feedback for hardware developers
5. Software usage and feedback for Plover developers

It takes around 20–30 minutes, so we're leaving it open for a month to give everyone a chance to fill it out.

Fill out the survey here.

Thank you for taking the time! Every response helps the Open Steno community grow and create better tools for all of us

Stenocadabra Demo Tool

Peter says:

Stenocadabra, Live display of steno strokes with translations. Only works with Plover hid device.
Vision
This tool was made for the purpose of making steno video demonstrations. Future plans include making this a game where you try to find all the combinations and words.
Maybe even visualize a web of words that are connected by how they are stroked. For example, words that are one stroke apart are connected by a line.

Novel Writing Season

Plover 5.0.0 Documentation

Have you read the docs for Plover 5.0.0? Well, you should!

Plover2CAT 4.0.0 alpha prerelease

plants writes:

Plover2CAT v4.0.0 is now in alpha pre-release.
Thanks to mkrnr for doing all the work in converting to Qt6.
Please install the alpha version by:
1) press the Git button in the plugin manager
2) paste the Github link https://github.com/greenwyrt/plover2CAT into the little dialog that pops up

If there are any issues, please either make an issue on Github or contact me on the Discord.

Plover 5 Officially Released!!

Woohoo! Plover 5 is finally officially here!!! A beautiful thing and a long time coming. Infinite thanks to everyone who's worked so hard to get us here over the past many years -- especially the magnificent mkrnr, who has been leading the project impeccably for ages. I am so grateful to see Plover 5 finally arrive! Open Steno Forever!!