For years, I’ve said Apple should’ve put the Touch Bar above the function row, not replaced it. I think that one tweak would’ve made it a hit. Now, someone’s done it with the Flexbar, a standalone plug-in accessory I, frankly, wouldn’t buy—but it’s nice to see the idea in action.
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P.S. Not that anyone cares about this specific example, but this is how I help myself with spellings and capitalizations that I just can’t seem to remember.
And ‘Text Replacement’ gets its own
xtrshortcut to quickly jump into that Settings screen.
@ismh86 wrote a great little piece on this as well, and pointed out something that I noticed but didn’t mention:
Yup agree
@jarrod Good point, but I also wonder if something with screens under physical keys would be better too. https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/mini-six/
@jarrod I do something similar! There’s a specific spelling of a word that is valid in some contexts in Norwegian but I frequently used wrong so I made it a shortcut to “ARE_YOU_SURE?“
@torb A la Stream Deck? I hear those are quite popular too. But so far I’ve resisted in favor of keyboard shortcuts.
@torb Haha nice one!
@jarrod Ah, yeah, that’s a more contempoary example.
Oh my… I want one!!!
@jarrod My big thing with HID/IO is that we’d ought to add support *standardised* support for rotary encoders (with display).
*Any time* you have a numeric value in a software tool you ought to be able to control it by turning a knob.
I use Tangent Element Knob and when I edit RAW photos I never have the software GUI sliders visible and I just turn the knobs I’ve set up.It’s a very efficient and intuitive way to work. I wish I could use it in other apps as well.
@torb I imagine this would be hard to build into a laptop, but you’re right: tactile controls are pretty great.