For many people abbreviations are the quick hack to increase writing speed.

How do we find though what the abbreviations are someone should use?

from this guide:

Here’s how to integrate shortcuts into your workflow:

• Go bottoms-up. Don’t just download 300 most popular English words but make shortcuts based on your unique needs. This means,
• Look for big words. You must become the Sherlock of your own typing. Whenever you catch a big word that you type often, go ahead and set up a shortcut for it. The bigger the word, the more benefit you get. For example, you can take the word “progressive” and turn it into a “pg” shortcut. This reduces the number of symbols you need to type 5x and removes any possibility of typos.
• Look for complex words. Anything that requires special symbols, capital letters, or apostrophes must be turned into shortcuts. For example, I have “ive” shortcut for “I’ve” and type two symbols less each time I get to write this word.
• Design shortcuts with ergonomics in mind. You must make them as convenient as possible to get really fast. Thus, for a two-symbol shortcut, you need two symbols in different parts of the keyboard. This enables typing the shortcut with two or three different fingers instead of one.
• Use the first two letters of the word to make shortcuts easy to remember. The first and last letter will do as well. But if you set up a shortcut that doesn’t make sense to you, you won’t remember it. And shortcuts only help if you use them. For example, I have “ab” for “about” and “rd” for “realized.” For word combos, use first letters of both words; for example, I have a “fe” shortcut that transforms into “for example” and “ac” shortcut that becomes “auto compound” after I hit the space bar.
• Design different variations of a shortcut for the same word. When you start typing three times faster, you will inevitably face a system not picking up keys in the right order. Therefore, it’s useful to have different variations of the same shortcut for the same word. For example, I have both “dnt” and “dont” expanding into “don’t.”

1. Install requirements

pip install nltk

2. Prepare your docs as txts

lots of ways to do this. but one way is to use pandoc

pandoc input.docx -t plain -o output.txt

On Linux/MacOS install pandoc](https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases) then use a script like convert_documents.sh with chmod u+x convert_documents.sh like so

#!/bin/bash

# Directory containing your documents
DOC_DIR="/path/to/your/documents"

# Output file
OUTPUT_FILE="combined_text.txt"

# Empty or create the output file
> "$OUTPUT_FILE"

# Loop through all supported document files in the directory
for file in "$DOC_DIR"/*; do
    echo "Processing $file..."
    # Use Pandoc to convert to plain text and append to the output file
    pandoc "$file" -t plain >> "$OUTPUT_FILE"
done

echo "All documents have been combined into $OUTPUT_FILE."

or windows convert_documents.bat

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

REM Directory containing your documents
set "DOC_DIR=path\to\your\documents"

REM Output file
set "OUTPUT_FILE=combined_text.txt"

REM Empty or create the output file
type nul > "%OUTPUT_FILE%"

REM Loop through all supported document files in the directory
for %%F in ("%DOC_DIR%\*") do (
    echo Processing %%F...
    REM Use Pandoc to convert to plain text and append to the output file
    pandoc "%%F" -t plain >> "%OUTPUT_FILE%"
)

echo All documents have been combined into %OUTPUT_FILE%.

Put all your docs to review in a target folder e.g txts

3. Run it

python abbreviation-finder.py path/to/txts-directory

It then spits out some words/sentences e.g

speaking -> sp
Consider -> co
directly -> di
preferred -> pr
practice -> pr
literacy -> li
extended -> ex
languages -> la
confused -> co
educational -> ed
telephone -> te
important -> im
language -> la
situation -> si
sentences -> se
development -> de
conversations -> co
activity -> ac
alongside -> al
more languages -> ml
can not -> cn
bilingual children -> bc
use words -> uw

enjoy!

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39916366#39926892
• https://vasilishynkarenka.com/how-to-type-3x-faster/
• https://blog.abreevy8.io/you-dont-have-to-type-faster-to-type-faster/