HannahJul 14, 2023

Planning my Piantor

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So I should be getting a Piantor from Beekeeb in a number of weeks and I thought I would get a head start and plan my layout - or at least one version of it, influenced heavily by Ben Vallack’s video about avoiding press-and-hold mechanics. Still plenty of fiddling to do. I want to move the WASD-style cursor keys in L3 onto my first three fingers for sure. In fact I’ve already changed it and made room for insert and added shift as a home key mod on the right. God this is addictive.

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Yeah I may tackle the symmetry of the braces. I work in IT so I use curly braces a lot followed by square brackets a fair amount. I’m left handed so that has influenced e.g. where the WASD cursor keys have added up and it gives the braces and brackets a bit more prominence, and also I’m UK ISO. But yeah I might end up choosing to be influenced by the right side of the QWERTY keyboard where the symbols are bunched up.

What I mean by avoiding press-and-hold is tapping L2 to get into layer 2 then staying in there until I tap L1 again. Athough, L2 might be instant return after one keypress and L3 might be “sticky” and require an L1 key press to return - I need to actually compile some alternatives and actually try it out in hand.

So basically I am avoiding chording unless I need to do the rare Ctrl-Win-RightArrow (which will require an instant return to L1 … boy the coding in QMK is going to be a doozy and I don’t even know if QMK is capable of it yet)

Jul 14, 2023 at 9:07pmWeb