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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Thumb-Key 3.4.0 Release (github.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for keeping Thumb-Key up to date.

Reading the changes in the latest version, a doubt came to my mind.

How will be handled later, if #44 is implemented, i.e. dictionaries, the relationship between each keyboard scheme with its respective dictionary?

That is, the following come to mind:

Would it be automatically associated by the name of the scheme?
defined by the user in the configuration? ( en <-> es-thumbkey, en <-> pt-splitkey, an so on).
or will it be defined live when typing with a key or gesture to switch keyboard and another to switch dictionaries?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

A dictionary would be explicitly defined in the keyboard definition, but I don't know how multiple language keyboards would work with that.