I could routinely type full, correct text messages without actually looking at my phone. It definitely required learning, but it was remarkably easy (and forgiving–the quadrants were all large, and there was optional haptic feedback every time you crossed a boundary) once you knew it. The end result was that your finger stayed in fairly rapid, fairly fluid motion, and only stopped at the end of a word. you added a space by lifting your finger and bringing it back down again.you typed a letter by starting your finger in the center, going out to a quadrant, crossing one or more quadrant boundaries, and bringing your finger back to the center circle.you had a circle in the middle, and four quadrants radiating out from the circle.It’s a bit hard to describe, but the gist was:
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There used to be a great keyboard on Android called 8pen which was definitely in the “experiment” category. I wish newer hand-held devices would do this instead of their current clumsy copy-and-paste (which only works reliably for text, just like ’80s-era X11). Direct manipulation everywhere, no abstract clipboard idea for people to understand, and an interface that scaled trivially to multiple concurrent clipboards.
You could then switch to another app and drag it back. You’d then get a little tab containing it as a clipping. You could select something on the Newton and drag it to the edge of the screen. It annoyed me that the iPhone launched without this feature when the Newton was the only small-screen device to do it well. If you drew a square, a circle, a line between them, and wrote in the square, you’d end up with vector shapes that connected properly (so dragging the square or circle would keep the line / arrow attached and where the text was associated with the shape that you drew in). The MS Whiteboard app is now maybe 60% as good on a CPU at least an order of magnitude more powerful. The drawing app had really good shape recognition. The Newton had a bunch of features that I still miss from modern systems.
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