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Compare 1996's "FITALY": "For the FITALY layout, we have obtained an average travel of 1.8, to be compared to an average travel of 3.2 for the QWERTY layout. (
by Terretta 8mo ago
Compare 1996's "FITALY":
"For the FITALY layout, we have obtained an average travel of 1.8, to be compared to an average travel of 3.2 for the QWERTY layout. (For prose, involving few numbers and symbols, the results are even better.)"
https://www.textware.com/fitaly/fitaly.htm https://www.textware.com/fitaly/fitaly.htm
https://the-gadgeteer.com/1998/08/22/fitaly_review/ https://the-gadgeteer.com/1998/08/22/fitaly_review/
And closer to OP, "HexInput":
"Please use this idea! If you are a software developer, I urge you to consider adding this functionality to your product. My hope is that ten years from now, we won't have to laboriously tap out messages letter by letter, but instead will be able to zip them out quickly and efficiently with something like HexInput." -Sept2006
https://www.strout.net/info/ideas/hexinput.html https://www.strout.net/info/ideas/hexinput.html
1996, 2006, 2026... Your turn?
- WillAdams 8mo agoThere were a _lot_ of programs in this space, one of the more interesting was AlphaTap! by Network Improv: http://networkimprov.net/alphatap/light.html http://networkimprov.net/alphatap/light.html c.f., the research project: https://dasher.zone/docs/getting-started/how-to/ https://dasher.zone/docs/getting-started/how-to/ For my part, I just write text out using a Wacom stylus on my Note 10+
- andai 8mo ago>Type by zooming infinitely into a prediction model Holy crap that's a trippy GIF
- helloplanets 8mo agoAt the very least it captures well how it feels to talk when sufficiently high...
- viraptor 8mo agoI've never felt so stressed by someone writing text before.
- Terretta 8mo agoTY for the flashback: I'd learned Dasher! Jesus-phone had washed that away. I kind of miss my Compaq iPaq, Danger Hiptop, Handspring Visor ... OK, one of those is not like the others, but it was ideal UX for the time.
- dotancohen 8mo agoI loved the stylus on my Note 10 Lite so much that when the phone was irreparably damaged I replaced it with another identical Note 10 Lite. I'm now on an S24 Ultra and won't consider a new phone without a built-in stylus.
- WillAdams 8mo agoI dread having to replace my Note 10+ (kind of wish I'd future-proofed a bit by waiting for the 5G model) --- it has a wonderful synergy w/ my Kindle Scribe, Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 and the Wacom One attached to my MacBook, since they all use the same Wacom EMR styluses.
- dotancohen 8mo agoYes! I also use the EMR stylus with my Boox E-Ink tablet.
- hypersoar 8mo agoThis is what immediately popped into my mind. I remember using this back in the early 2000s.