This is cool. And the experience of gesture typing is so different from touch-typing on a physical keyboard that I think it might be easier to experiment with or learn new keyboard layouts in this environment. Way back in the PalmPilot days I used the "Fitaly" keyboard layout (wow, their site is still up and hasn't changed in years: http://www.fitaly.com/fitaly/fitaly.htm ) and it was fairly easy to learn (by point o…
A circular layout might be easy to use with gesture, something like a rotary phone with radius jumps
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#12This is cool. And the experience of gesture typing is so different from touch-typing on a physical keyboard that I think it might be easier to experiment with or learn new keyboard layouts in this environment. Way back in the PalmPilot days I used the "Fitaly" keyboard layout (wow, their site is still up and hasn't changed in years: http://www.fitaly.com/fitaly/fitaly.htm ) and it was fairly easy to learn (by point o…
A circular layout might be easy to use with gesture, something like a rotary phone with radius jumps
This loopy gesture-based keyboard won some of the typing speed contests back in the PalmOS days:
https://mrl.nyu.edu/projects/quikwriting/
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#13These Norvig notebooks are reliably epic.
Wow, I didn't realize that this was part of a series until I saw your comment, Thanks! For everybody else who's interested:
If you don't have ipython notebook installed, you can view them by copying the URL (without the protocol) into:
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#14I don't quite get it. Is this much different from after the fact spelling autocorrect in effect?
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
A circular layout might be easy to use with gesture, something like a rotary phone with radius jumps
This loopy gesture-based keyboard won some of the typing speed contests back in the PalmOS days: https://mrl.nyu.edu/projects/quikwriting/
I just rediscovered my overlay last week.