Dasher

[mattp]

I'm writing this journal entry with an unusual text entry system called Dasher. It was mentioned on UNaXcess, which is a BBS that I'm on. It uses contextbased prediction to give it speed boost. I'm still much slower with it than I am with QWERTY but accuracy is easier so it's less frustrating.

Musing: I wonder if this is the first LiveJournal entry written with it.

Summary for the non-geek: type with your mouse, not your keyboard.

Comments

[choric.livejournal.com]

it kept coming out with stuff about a Mock Turtle

That'll be _Alice in Wonderland_, then. Dasher works by being fed a large amount of sample text; since we couldn't distribute copyrighted material, we went for out of copyright books instead. :)

- Chris, the New Dasher Guy. (mjg59's left to go off and do a PhD again.)