dactyl-manuform-keymap VS horizon

Regarding chording, you might find inspiration in the chording schemes in Ikcelaks’ Magic Sturdy, the Ardux project, and precondition's "steno-lite" combos.

I spent most of the last 2 years using variants of this but more recently I’ve switch from home row mods to one shot mods and modifier positions similar to Xah. https://github.com/precondition/dactyl-manuform-keymap

Something that made a big difference for me was home row mods. If you can use QMK to embed ctrl, shift, alt, gui into ‘long press’ on the home row it will reduce strain from overusing the pinky finger. After about 1 year of using a variation of this setup I think home row mods reducing pinky finger strain has been the most noticeable improvement although there are many more benefits to switching to something like this dactyl manuform kb. https://github.com/precondition/dactyl-manuform-keymap

How did I arrive to this keymap? It's been a journey. I used home row mods for a few months. This felt great, but with my sloppy typing I routinely got false triggers (despite IGNORE_MOD_TAP_INTERRUPT) and struggled to get my typing speed much above 60 wpm. ​In an attempt to reduce false triggers, I wrote my own (not very good) mod-tap implementation, then realized this is a hard problem. I tried Precondition "steno lite" (see the system of combos in his keymap), and worked through some lessons from Zack Brown's excellent Learn Plover site to learn a little about real steno. I've dabbled with RSTHD and BEAKL15 before going back to Dvorak.

I always thought we could utilize that space on the Horizon keyboard, so I gave it a shot.

Heya, I'm building my Horizon keyboard (choc), which I printed myself from factory, and just realized it's a perfect candidate as a trackpad within its size.

The main goal of this project was to make a cheap PCB which acts as both the logical PCB and a directly-attached bottom plate. After designing Horizon, I wanted to take its bottom plate concept and merge it into a single PCB design.

Morizon is a direct modification of Horizon, with a fifth row of keys for users who like a physical number row. Horizon + More Keys = Morizon.

Have you considered using this KiCad script to create the lowest profile bottom place? https://github.com/skarrmann/horizon/

Construction based on, and using footprints and scripts from, the Horizon by u/skarrmann

I am currently using a 46-key layout on my Horizon.

The gerber files, KiCad files, and scripts are available for anyone to review, build, or modify: Horizon PCB repository on GitHub