An iclever folding keyboard lives in my small handbag with my iPad Mini. In the city, carrying a larger tech bag can turn one into a target. I’ve been using it for several years and love the typing experience and the responsiveness of the trackpad.
I hadn't thought of that -- and I should have, because I still remember being very nervous on my way to the BBC when a stranger commented on how nice my laptop bag was. As it happened, it didn't have a laptop in it, but I was concerned.
Thanks for this, William. As writers, I suppose the keyboard should be our most important tech item; it’s where the rubber meets the road. I’ve become a bit addicted to keyboards and have been searching for one to go with my iPad Mini that blends ergonomics with portability. For a while, I settled on an iPad case keyboard by Hou and loved it, but I found that the ’ key required an extra key press (much like, it seems, your Doohoeek keyboard?). Really annoying! So, I’ve now switched to the iClever foldable keyboard you mentioned (actually, it’s a no-name equivalent that most likely rolls off the same factory line). Enjoying that keyboard! Thanks again for the video-I’d love to see more keyboard reviews.
I LOVED this and let me tell you why. In undergrad school, lo these many years ago, I wrote a paper on the person who invented the keyboard we now use. From a search, "Christopher Sholes invented the first practical typewriter and introduced the keyboard layout that is familiar today. As he experimented early on with different versions, Sholes realized that the levers in the type basket would jam when he arranged the keys in alphabetical order." Then years later I met a descendant of this person and we became good friends. She was amazed that I knew her relative did this.
@@WilliamGallagher I also wrote a different paper on double-entry bookkeeping. I know no descendant of this man though. "Luca Pacioli (c. 1447 - 1517) was the first person to publish detailed material on the double-entry system of accounting. He was an Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar who also collaborated with his friend Leonardo da Vinci (who also took maths lessons from Pacioli)." I am sure you are still impressed with this.
Given your interest in keyboards and their design oddities, you might enjoy Marcin Wichary’s recent two-volume history of keyboards, “Shift Happens.” It’s obsessively researched, exquisitely designed, eclectic, idiosyncratic, and a complete joy.
It is! I managed to get a copy and the first thing I did was look up the original Macintosh to confirm that I was right it had 58 keys. There it was, looking gorgeous. I can lose hours in the book.
I tried small keyboards back in the Palm days, and found that they still required some surface to set them on. Current-day, if I can't make my quick note with the iPhone on-screen keyboard, I either make a voice memo (for quick ones) or pull out my iPad Pro/Magic Keyboard which lets me type effectively even on my lap. But that's just my own experience trying to use small keyboards.
I've never found even an actual typewriter "keyboard" to be good for long-term use. That Microsoft keypad does look really nice. My wife got frustrated using the old 1-2-3 numpad text entry on the old flip phones. So she asked her ex (she was providing our phones on his family plan) for a phone with a keyboard. She was thinking of one of those where the physical keyboard slid out from under the phone. Then she received a case for an iPhone and was so excited that she was actually getting an iPhone. I inherited it from her when she died and I started entering a diary in Google Docs so I could get used to typing one the iPhone. I do have bluetooth keyboards for my iPhone and iPad (both typewriter-style and piano-style), but I still mostly use the on-screen keyboard whenever I use these devices.
An iclever folding keyboard lives in my small handbag with my iPad Mini. In the city, carrying a larger tech bag can turn one into a target. I’ve been using it for several years and love the typing experience and the responsiveness of the trackpad.
I hadn't thought of that -- and I should have, because I still remember being very nervous on my way to the BBC when a stranger commented on how nice my laptop bag was. As it happened, it didn't have a laptop in it, but I was concerned.
Thanks for this, William. As writers, I suppose the keyboard should be our most important tech item; it’s where the rubber meets the road. I’ve become a bit addicted to keyboards and have been searching for one to go with my iPad Mini that blends ergonomics with portability. For a while, I settled on an iPad case keyboard by Hou and loved it, but I found that the ’ key required an extra key press (much like, it seems, your Doohoeek keyboard?). Really annoying! So, I’ve now switched to the iClever foldable keyboard you mentioned (actually, it’s a no-name equivalent that most likely rolls off the same factory line). Enjoying that keyboard! Thanks again for the video-I’d love to see more keyboard reviews.
Don't encourage me, don't. Don't.
I LOVED this and let me tell you why. In undergrad school, lo these many years ago, I wrote a paper on the person who invented the keyboard we now use. From a search, "Christopher Sholes invented the first practical typewriter and introduced the keyboard layout that is familiar today. As he experimented early on with different versions, Sholes realized that the levers in the type basket would jam when he arranged the keys in alphabetical order."
Then years later I met a descendant of this person and we became good friends. She was amazed that I knew her relative did this.
Whoa, you mean I now know someone who was friends with a descendent of the QWERTY inventor? Shake my hand.
@@WilliamGallagher I also wrote a different paper on double-entry bookkeeping. I know no descendant of this man though.
"Luca Pacioli (c. 1447 - 1517) was the first person to publish detailed material on the double-entry system of accounting. He was an Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar who also collaborated with his friend Leonardo da Vinci (who also took maths lessons from Pacioli)."
I am sure you are still impressed with this.
@tripley66 I am.
Given your interest in keyboards and their design oddities, you might enjoy Marcin Wichary’s recent two-volume history of keyboards, “Shift Happens.” It’s obsessively researched, exquisitely designed, eclectic, idiosyncratic, and a complete joy.
It is! I managed to get a copy and the first thing I did was look up the original Macintosh to confirm that I was right it had 58 keys. There it was, looking gorgeous. I can lose hours in the book.
@@WilliamGallagher I should have known you had a copy! I only recently discovered your channel and am trying to catch up.
@@pdlagasse So pleased to meet a fellow keyboard fan.
I tried small keyboards back in the Palm days, and found that they still required some surface to set them on. Current-day, if I can't make my quick note with the iPhone on-screen keyboard, I either make a voice memo (for quick ones) or pull out my iPad Pro/Magic Keyboard which lets me type effectively even on my lap. But that's just my own experience trying to use small keyboards.
Clever. I try voice memos every now and again but somehow it just won't stick with me. I do like being able to do it on my Watch, though.
I've never found even an actual typewriter "keyboard" to be good for long-term use.
That Microsoft keypad does look really nice.
My wife got frustrated using the old 1-2-3 numpad text entry on the old flip phones. So she asked her ex (she was providing our phones on his family plan) for a phone with a keyboard. She was thinking of one of those where the physical keyboard slid out from under the phone. Then she received a case for an iPhone and was so excited that she was actually getting an iPhone.
I inherited it from her when she died and I started entering a diary in Google Docs so I could get used to typing one the iPhone.
I do have bluetooth keyboards for my iPhone and iPad (both typewriter-style and piano-style), but I still mostly use the on-screen keyboard whenever I use these devices.
Do you mean your wife has died? I am so sorry. I can only imagine how that feels.
@@WilliamGallagher Thanks. That was a dozen years ago. I'm just starting to get over it a bit.