When you write for a living, your hands are your livelihood. I wrecked mine by typing thousands of words a day on a cramped laptop keyboard in my 20s. I switched to the Kinesis Advantage keyboard to reduce hand pain and prolong my working life, and eventually to the Advantage 2. But the fixed width still isn’t ideal from an ergo perspective, and the heavy case and wire doesn’t really fit with my modern minimalist desk setup.
Enter the Glove80, my new split bluetooth keyboard that arrived yesterday. I immediately had to remap a bunch of keys because I’m a nerd who uses a very customized key layout. But Glove80 made it easy, and even uses the same size keycaps for all keys so I can move them around to actually match my layout. First time in many years the labels on my keys actually match the layout.
Pretty psyched for this improvement! I suspect the Kinesis keyboard will be going away for good this weekend.
