Thumb Shift Diary

• June 2018
  • Try thumb shifting with shio’s recommendations.
  • Unorganized log of first attempt: Thumb Shift Diary 201806.
  • Try Windows+DvorakJ, stop
    • Thumb Shift with Ergodox
    • Ergodox EZ + QMK implemented thumb shift farm
    • Made to behave like the Shift key.
    • shio told me, “This is not a simultaneous push.”
    • It looked better to do it on a Mac, so I decided not to implement the simultaneous push.
• August 2018 - Diary of Thumb Shift on Mac 201808
  • The structure of overlapping Lacaille and Karabiner-elements is engineeringly weird.
  • Karabiner-elements alone can achieve thumb shift.
    • But I’m not convinced by the sequence that was provided.
    • It’s hard for a space to be a line break.
  • It’s hard to mess with Karabiner’s configuration files directly.
  • I made a script to generate a configuration file.
    • generate_karabiner_conf
  • But for some reason, the success rate of inputting “ょ” is low. I don’t know the cause. I lost my motivation.
• November 22, 2019
  • Decide to move to thumb shift over the New Year’s vacation.
  • I had a medical checkup this time and my vision, which used to be 1.2, was now 0.8.
  • Keep the monitor far away and the keyboard under the desk on your lap.
    • I was thinking that if you’re going to practice under-the-desk input anyway, rather than for the purpose of thumb shifting itself, you might as well take this opportunity to put it all together.
  • I thought I’d follow [/shio/4 settings and 1 training for drafting on a new Mac](https://scrapbox.io/shio/4 settings and 1 training for drafting on a new Mac) honestly.
• November 24, 2019
  • I observed again the environment of shio.
    • After shifting one square to the right with Karabiner-elements, Lacaille handles simultaneous keystrokes.
    • Huh? Wouldn’t you rather not need Karabiner-elements and just use Lacaille?
  • Diary of Thumb Shift on Mac 2020-01

  • Tried for the first time in a year and a half

• 2022-01-22 I haven’t remembered this page in a while, so I’ll report on the current status.
  • Since 2020, Mac key layout has always been thumb shift
    • Is it OK for typing normal sentences (though slower than Roman input in its heyday)? I guess. about?
    • I’ll be like, “Yeah,” or “Where was I?
  • I’ve been taking minutes, writing out thoughts, etc. using iPhone flick input, and as a result, my flick input is faster.

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