Holding either of my outer thumb keys opens a left or right utility layer, respectively. ![]() I'm left-handed and I like the metaphor that my left thumb "pushes" the prose forward, while my right thumb pushes it back, but you could swap it if you tend to tap the spacebar with your right or prefer a "pulling" metaphor as a right-hander. My home thumb positions (I rest my thumbs on the outer thumb keys) serve as Space and Backspace, respectively. Tapping my right inner thumb key enters Layer 1, My inner left thumb key controls Shift and operates just like normal on layer 0, allowing me to write sentence case fairly naturally (although I am still tapping with my left pinky to try to shift occasionally still). But I want to focus more on the four thumb cluster keys. The only other thing of note is that I opted to demote the semicolon to one of my peek-in layers, and replaced it with the single/double quote key, because I've found that I write far more contractions than complex sentence clauses 3. I am sticking with QWERTY for the time being so I don't have to rewire my entire brain while learning this new layer system, but I would love to experiment with alternatives like Colemak or the ISRT layout that Vallack uses someday 2. All of the non-thumb keys are purely alphabetical and punctuation, so this layout will accept any letter arrangement without issue. Layer 0: prose writingĪt its most basic, this layer is focused on writing English prose in the way that is most comfortable for the user. The peek-in utility layers are activated by holding the right and left primary thumb key, respectively.
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