Ergodox layout

Ergodox-layout.kbd.json

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Ergodox-layout.notes.md

Notes

Day 1

Day 1 trial went alright. I accidentally backspaced more than I wanted, but dramatically less than the default.

Hitting enter when I wasn't ready was much more common than I expected, so I've moved enter off of a key that has a finger resting on it. I use control quite a bit, so putting it where I rest my thumb should speed up a lot of the workflow. Trying to put shift on the left thumb would probably be ineffectual, because of muscle memory, and I think I use Control more anyways.

I'm trying out different positions for forward slash. Today I dreaded having to type a path because my typing speed was so slow when I needed to access the slash.

I'm considering moving the number row down, and putting most commonly used symbols on home row. The arrangement now is great for typing a series of numbers (which will usually be the case, I rarely have a type a single digit). I need to set up a keylogger on me so that I can determine common combinations of keys. Today I noticed I do a lot of [' and '])., so those two cases should probably be the first up for optimization.