Thumb-Key

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Thumb-Key is a privacy-conscious smart keyboard, made specifically for your thumbs.

It features a 3x3 grid layout, as many older phones had, and uses swipes for the less common letters. Initial testing shows that you can reach ~25 words per minute after a day of use.

Instead of relying on profit-driven, privacy-offending word and sentence prediction for accuracy, as do most popular phone keyboards like Gboard and Swiftkey, Thumb-Key uses large keys with predictable positions, to prevent your eyes from hunting and pecking for letters.

As the key positions get ingrained into your muscle memory, eventually you'll be able to appromixate the fast speeds of touch-typing, your eyes never having to leave the text edit area.

This project is a follow-up to the now unmaintained (and closed-source) MessageEase Keyboard, which is its main inspiration.

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How to type quotation marks without it modifying previous characters (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by KhanGressman@lemmy.ml to c/thumbkey@lemmy.ml

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If I type a space followed by a quotation mark, the quotation mark replaces the space, making it difficult to type start quotes. And if I try to place an end quote directly after another letter, it will either modify the letter if it's a vowel to become an umlaut, or it won't type the quotation mark unless I first enter a space. If I disable spacebar multi-taps, then I can get around the issue by entering two spaces before a start quote and one space before an end quote, but with spacebar multi-taps on, the only way to enter a start quote is by pressing space, entering a quote, going back, and entering another space character before the quotation mark.

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Use the issue tracker for these, and make sore to put what version you're on, because I can't replicate that.