My Ergodox EZ Keyboard Layout (Engram)
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Hey everyone! This is a walkthrough my current keyboard layout. If you have an Ergodox, you can check this layout out by flashing it to your keyboard: configure.zsa....
Check out the links from the video: dygma.com/blog...
ergodox-ez.com/
www.typingclub...
should check out glorious engrammer has some cool ideas it's for glove80 but same ideas could be applied to other keyboards
Good video, especially when you explaine your keyboard layout. For me is very efficient to set Esc on combo (in your case its [space, layer 3]).
Have you looked at Engrammer? It's Engram but with more programming friendly symbol layout. If so, what do you think?
I haven't actually checked that out until you mentioned it. It looks interesting, although I personally dislike holding keys to activate shift/ctrl/etc. The problem is latency.
Let's give an example: suppose I set space to tap and enter to hold on the same key. The only problem I have with this is that the space key only gets sent when I let go of the key and I notice that a lot. It makes typing feel a lot less fluid and so I'm not the kind of person who enjoys holding down the homing keys to shift, for example. I love the idea but I hate the way it feels to send a key only on release.
My layout has also changed a lot since I made this video. I'm still on Engram, but I've drastically simplified my layers and gone with a more vanilla engram symbol layout.
Thank you for mentioning Engrammer! I love everything about the Engram layout except for the wonky symbol placements. Engrammer is more-or-less what I would have altered Engram to be. I'm so glad to see it's already on Monkeytype and layout files in Github. I've been typing Dvorak for the last 14 years, with a couple 6 month periods where I typed Workman and then Colemak. I think it's time to shake things up a bit.
I am guessing that editor is based on qmk. If it is there is a qmk feature called Tri Layers. That would help with your layer 4 issue.
Thanks I'll look into that. Although I've already changed up the layout again 😂 by placing the punctuation in the lateral index finger column the way engram says, I can have a single layer for number row and all my symbols.
I would not recommend Colemak to anyone. It is not optimized enough for how many keys change. The right hand is super busy and not comfortable to type. You can look at my ENDe layout and see that it combines the hand alteration of Dvorak and has many rolls as well. It is optimized for English, German and Dutch, but also is good for French and the like.
My approach is not to use any held layers held for typing, but only for the navigation layer. Shift and an extra character/ symbol layer are in comfortable pinky positions, but are one-shot keys, which IMO is important to type potentially faster and also a bit less error-prone and more comfortable, then holding down any layer-keys. Using the thumb for important functions is IMO not ideal. Just use the thumb in the position where it naturally is and assign only space to it for typing. You can use the thumb on thumb keys for less often used shortcuts, macros, PrintScreen, Mouse-layer switch or something like that, but I would not use the thumb for typing (besides space).
When using both thumbs for the navigation layer (hold) it is no problem to have Enter and Backspace on that layer, because just holding the thumb down (on the other hand then you are pressing the navigation layer keys) is almost no extra effort, compared to a single key. You can have a look at my layer at REMOVEMEconfigure.zsa.io/voyager/layouts/r9KR7/gJg6X/0
I've been using my glove80 for a few weeks now, so this layout isn't exactly the same. Actually today I just changed my shift key to a one shot layer (or sticky layer on ZMK). I'm tired of typing two capital letters are the start of a sentence lol
Great video! I love learning about another person’s layout because they always have a unique approach to it and I always learn something. I think I may steal your right-hand navigation layer, that would solve some issues I’ve been having.
Excellent!!
This convinced me to learn engram when I build my first split keyboard in the coming weeks
Nice. How did it go?
nice layout, but 2 keys to backspace?
It didn't really bother me that much at the time. Now, I've moved enter/tab/backspace/delete off of that layer and onto the main one.
I've done a lot of adjustments since this video but long story short, I moved that nav layer key next to space and so to hit enter, I had to move my thumb off of space which became annoying