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sophia_sol) wrote2024-07-04 09:37 am
sophia_sol) wrote2024-07-04 09:37 am
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mobile keyboard apps
My phone intermittently has these glitches where it absolutely stops being willing to vibrate for anything, despite having vibration settings turned on, and it doesn't fix until I restart the phone entirely. I recently realized that it only ever does this when I'm typing something on my phone, which implies it's associated with the keyboard app I use -- the default for my phone, gboard.
I've tried the other major standard keyboard apps available before, due to more prosaic frustrations with gboard, but hated all of them even more than I hate gboard. but this glitch was a strong motivation towards change, so I decided to try weird keyboards this time!
typewise immediately came up as an option, with a different way of doing the keyboard than the usual, and it tells you that it might take you a week to get used to but that it's worth putting the time in to learn how to use it. promisingly weird! I was willing to give it a try.
and within only a DAY of using typewise I already loved it? things you have to do regularly, like put in spaces or backspacing to delete typos, are done via gestures which you can make anywhere on the keyboard. capitals are made using a quick swipe upwards on the letter. and the hexagonal key shapes really do make it easier to hit the key you're aiming for!
I've always done swipe-typing on my phone, because I get soooo impatient with typing things out letter by letter on an intangible keyboard with tiny letters, but swipe-typing regularly writes a word that's entirely different than the one I intended, and capitalizes words I really do not want capitalized (no I will NOT be honouring youtube with camelcase caps), and puts in the american spelling of words that I want to spell with a proper canadian "u" in there, etc etc. I'm constantly having to go back and reread my messages to fix things.
typewise doesn't have swipe, but the design actually makes it fast enough to type a letter at a time that I don't feel it holds me back (at least, no more than ANY typing that's not on a physical keyboard will hold me back!). and honestly I prefer that. I have more control over what I'm actually writing, when it's me typing out all the letters!
once I determined I liked it, I bought the paid version like the next day. the free version is perfectly useable and good, but the paid version comes with some desirable features that seem worth it to me.
It's still only a few days since I started using typewise, and I'm still training my muscle memory on a bunch of stuff with it, but I'm already sure that this is a permanent switch for me. thank you phone glitches for inspiring me to finally make the plunge and try something really different, I guess!
I've tried the other major standard keyboard apps available before, due to more prosaic frustrations with gboard, but hated all of them even more than I hate gboard. but this glitch was a strong motivation towards change, so I decided to try weird keyboards this time!
typewise immediately came up as an option, with a different way of doing the keyboard than the usual, and it tells you that it might take you a week to get used to but that it's worth putting the time in to learn how to use it. promisingly weird! I was willing to give it a try.
and within only a DAY of using typewise I already loved it? things you have to do regularly, like put in spaces or backspacing to delete typos, are done via gestures which you can make anywhere on the keyboard. capitals are made using a quick swipe upwards on the letter. and the hexagonal key shapes really do make it easier to hit the key you're aiming for!
I've always done swipe-typing on my phone, because I get soooo impatient with typing things out letter by letter on an intangible keyboard with tiny letters, but swipe-typing regularly writes a word that's entirely different than the one I intended, and capitalizes words I really do not want capitalized (no I will NOT be honouring youtube with camelcase caps), and puts in the american spelling of words that I want to spell with a proper canadian "u" in there, etc etc. I'm constantly having to go back and reread my messages to fix things.
typewise doesn't have swipe, but the design actually makes it fast enough to type a letter at a time that I don't feel it holds me back (at least, no more than ANY typing that's not on a physical keyboard will hold me back!). and honestly I prefer that. I have more control over what I'm actually writing, when it's me typing out all the letters!
once I determined I liked it, I bought the paid version like the next day. the free version is perfectly useable and good, but the paid version comes with some desirable features that seem worth it to me.
It's still only a few days since I started using typewise, and I'm still training my muscle memory on a bunch of stuff with it, but I'm already sure that this is a permanent switch for me. thank you phone glitches for inspiring me to finally make the plunge and try something really different, I guess!
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typewise is worth trying out imo! it might not be for everyone but I like it a lot. I had the same issue with gboard, and having to turn off auto stuff and then having to remember to always capitalize "i"
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Thanks for sharing your experience -- typewise sounds wonderful. And since, weirdly, it doesn't show up in a search for "typewise keyboard" on the iOS App Store, https://apps.apple.com/us/app/typewise-custom-keyboard/id1470215025
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