PFTR
Preflop, Flop, Turn, River. Paste a hand history from PokerStars or GGPoker, or type a line, and get the whole hand in one picture.
Why a shape
A hand history makes you read it top to bottom and rebuild the hand in your head. A PFTR strip shows the whole hand at once. Each player has a row and each street has a column. A stroke goes down as the action moves to the next player and climbs when it comes back around. A thick stroke marks the moment someone takes the initiative. You see who drove the hand, where it turned, and how big it got before you read a single word.
It still reads as a sentence. Under the strip, the same hand is written out street by street, and Next walks it one action at a time, with the stroke, the sentence and the pot moving together.
How to write a line
Header: $2-5 stakes · @$1000 stack · BTN=AdQs hole cards, or partial: AK AKs Ax.
Streets: / then the cards, like / Kh7s2c.
Actions: f fold, x check, c call, j jam · BTN$15 raise to · BTNb$11 or BTNb33 bet · BBr$300 raise · BBxr$300 check-raise · ~ tank · ! snap.
Case never matters.