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What keyboard do people find useful these days? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Gboard is getting visibly worse almost on a daily basis, especially autocorrecting perfectly legitimate words, presumably based on dubious analysis of other people's writing. So what's worth trying? The ability to swipe type is a big plus

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, this looks good! Thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I put this in another comment, but you should see it, too:

If you go with FUTO keyboard, do these as soon as you download it:

Turn on the machine learning feature for swipe typing (entirely local - nothing about the keyboard phones home)

Allow curse words

Make autocorrect your bitch, and I mean really force it

If you do these things, it will - eventually - figure out your typing habits. But it’s worth it. I’ve been using it for a month or so and, outside of some odd quirks, it’s working pretty well. Even has a clipboard manager and a “paste” button (for fat-fingerers like me), among other neat tools.

Oh, and don’t forget to drop it into Obtainium so it can be updated, as it’s not offered through any app store.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I just added it to fdroid.... So that is nice

So I installed futo, I'm typing this edit using it.

The swiping is a little more precise, requiring a bit more precision on my part.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The swiping needs to require less precision IMO. There's a training thing on FUTO's website somewhere that will give you a string of words to swipe type (accessible only via mobile). That's how they improve the swipe feature overall, but I think some people may have been too careful with it. Be sloppy, be imprecise, make it learn how normal people swipe.

Personally, I prefer a bit of sloppiness when it comes to swiping anyway - because if I wanted precision, I would actually type the words. GBoard is pretty good at figuring out that swiping s m w or a m s was probably supposed to be "and"; and other such words that aren't super accurate when swiped. FUTO keyboard is not very good at that, at least at first haha.