Everyone learns how to use a pen in grade school. This has lead to a belief that an electronic pen is a more suitable input device than a keyboard for computers. But using a pen has a drawback for text entry: an expert can enter text no faster than a beginner. This suggests that there is a need for a pen text entry system geared to power users.

I have been studying such a system, which I call "unistrokes". Unistrokes are a specially constructed alphabet intended to be used with an electronic pen. Unistrokes are designed to have the following advantages over ordinary writing: (1) faster entry speed (2) higher legibility (3) "eyes-free" operation. Preliminary experience suggest that unistrokes are quite easy to learn.