Taxi Instruction Short Hand?

I'm fairly spoiled in the freight world. It's the same airports over and over usually and it just taxing to parking at 2am. But in the rare case we are out during the day I use an arrow for turns at intersections, and put an HS above the hold short and/or circle it too, depending on how fast the guy/gal is reading off the clearance.
 
Writing down taxi instructions is the same as writing down IFR clearances or virtually anything else you might wanna write down in the aircraft. It only has to make sense to you. If i is working, keep it, if it isn't working then change it. I generally use alphanumerics for the taxiways and runways with directional arrows for the turns if needed. Like I said however, it doesn't matter what I use, as what you use is working for you!

For example, writing down and IFR clearance might look like this: C SAT v h230/5 T CS AF 10/e230/10 120.3 1234. You don't have to be able to read it, but it makes sense to me! A taxi instruction might be h3 -> H A D R23 with a circle around R23 to denote the hold short instruction.
 
I write down a ⬅️ For hold short instructions as writing "HS" would easily confuse me as taxiway H or S or HS
Usually I'm wasting my ink because the captain is moving before we can brief the taxi, but it's always nice to have your ass covered in case he forgets where to go!
 
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