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> What if I could draw the letter on my trackpad? The Apple Newton did that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton#Notes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ap
by CaptainFever 2y ago
> What if I could draw the letter on my trackpad?
The Apple Newton did that!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton#Notes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton#Notes
- tetrisgm 2y agoThat feels like Siri dictation, minus Siri, and minus the dictation
- bux93 2y agoAlso the palm, they called it graffiti. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_%28Palm_OS%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_%28Palm_OS%29 (Google's gboard offers a handwriting keyboard, but it's on the touch screen and doesn't count. Also, it's not graffiti, so a bit more error prone. It does recognize joined-up handwriting though.) There's also some keyboards on f-droid for braille text input and morse code input.
- tengwar2 2y agoThere were a couple of aftermarket systems for the Psion as well. Normally the keyboard was better, but writing on the screen turned out to be easier in a bumpy taxi.
- WorldMaker 2y agoThe Apple Watch can do it today. (In iMessage, as one easy example app, there's an entry box to send a new message. If you tap into that and get a keyboard click the keyboard icon in the bottom corner and there's a "moving finger" icon you can tap to get a trackpad to draw letters on. Older and smaller Watches won't even have the keyboard and will just have the trackpad.)