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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Having trouble with enter behavior (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Irongavel@lemmy.world to c/thumbkey@lemmy.ml

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Howdy, I've really been enjoying using this keyboard for the past few months. It really nails ease of use and accuracy. Within the past 2 weeks, however a change has significantly impacted my ability to use this keyboard at work, which sucks.

Previously when sending text messages with the Messages App, the enter key (key3_3) would produce a linebreak when tapped, and I could use that to produce text message 'reports' for a colleague that needs the information in that format on that service. For the past few weeks (I unfortunately do not know exactly when) tapping enter instead sends the message, and long pressing enter instead produces the line break.

I see that this appears to be documented on the github as the intended behavior, but I really would prefer an option to have it the other way around/disabled. I've been trying to use the yaml to edit the board to behave in the desired manner, but I am not familiar enough to produce the desired output, and I'm also not sure if it's thumbkey causing this or Google Messages has just forced 'enter = send' on their end. I am also open to trying other messaging if thatis the case and anyone has a suggestion.

Your attention and assistance is greatly appreciated.

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