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One-Finger Keyboarding?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the and-you-thought-dvorak-was-funky dept.

adubey writes: "Forget Qwerty, forget Dvorak; the best keyboard for palmtops may well be the Fitaly One-Finger Keyboard. " Kinda nifty idea actually, I'm wondering if we'll see one that would work for a wearable PC (like maybe this guy from IBM).

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  1. One-Handed Reading by carlhirsch · · Score: 5

    Great! Now I'll have that other hand free for... well, you know.

    -carl

    --
    . We've got computers, we're tapping phone lines, you know that ain't allowed - Talking Heads, "Life During Wartime"
  2. Not one *finger*!! by rhdwdg · · Score: 5
    I've been using the software fitaly for my Palms for quite a while now, and loved it. Just a couple days ago (I ordered on the last day of the special price offer) I bought the FitalyStamp for my Palm III. The improvement is wonderful. The Palm IIIxe's digitizer seems to be a lot thicker than my old Palm Pro's, and the parallax was killing my accuracy. With the Stamp I'm back up to my proper 40-45 wpm. I type at that speed too, so I personally can write on my Palm as fast as at my desk.

    But back to the point -- this isn't about one finger input, it's about pen input. Big difference. It's fast: I just bring my Palm to meetings now and don't bother with paper. I can read my notes, unlike my handwriting, and upload them to my desktop so I can store them with the rest of my electronic notes. I hate paper.

    The product really works, and I just wish they could port InstantText to the Palm. Or Linux. It looks cool, but I'm not going to do my writing in Word 97 just to use it.