2/21/2026 at 4:39:13 AM
Compare 1996's "FITALY":"For the FITALY layout, we have obtained an average travel of 1.8, to be compared to an average travel of 3.2 for the QWERTY layout. (For prose, involving few numbers and symbols, the results are even better.)"
https://www.textware.com/fitaly/fitaly.htm
https://the-gadgeteer.com/1998/08/22/fitaly_review/
And closer to OP, "HexInput":
"Please use this idea! If you are a software developer, I urge you to consider adding this functionality to your product. My hope is that ten years from now, we won't have to laboriously tap out messages letter by letter, but instead will be able to zip them out quickly and efficiently with something like HexInput." -Sept2006
https://www.strout.net/info/ideas/hexinput.html
1996, 2006, 2026... Your turn?
by Terretta
2/22/2026 at 11:18:56 PM
There were a _lot_ of programs in this space, one of the more interesting was AlphaTap! by Network Improv:http://networkimprov.net/alphatap/light.html
c.f., the research project:
https://dasher.zone/docs/getting-started/how-to/
For my part, I just write text out using a Wacom stylus on my Note 10+
by WillAdams
2/23/2026 at 7:20:43 AM
I loved the stylus on my Note 10 Lite so much that when the phone was irreparably damaged I replaced it with another identical Note 10 Lite. I'm now on an S24 Ultra and won't consider a new phone without a built-in stylus.by dotancohen
2/23/2026 at 3:49:43 PM
I dread having to replace my Note 10+ (kind of wish I'd future-proofed a bit by waiting for the 5G model) --- it has a wonderful synergy w/ my Kindle Scribe, Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 and the Wacom One attached to my MacBook, since they all use the same Wacom EMR styluses.by WillAdams
2/23/2026 at 2:51:42 AM
TY for the flashback: I'd learned Dasher! Jesus-phone had washed that away.I kind of miss my Compaq iPaq, Danger Hiptop, Handspring Visor ... OK, one of those is not like the others, but it was ideal UX for the time.
by Terretta
2/23/2026 at 1:03:04 AM
>Type by zooming infinitely into a prediction modelHoly crap that's a trippy GIF
by andai
2/23/2026 at 9:58:52 AM
I've never felt so stressed by someone writing text before.by viraptor
2/23/2026 at 1:50:53 AM
At the very least it captures well how it feels to talk when sufficiently high...by helloplanets
2/23/2026 at 4:49:12 AM
This is what immediately popped into my mind. I remember using this back in the early 2000s.by hypersoar