engram
Arno's Engram v2.0 ("Engram") layout is an optimized key layout for touch typing in English based on ergonomic considerations, with a protocol and software for creating new, optimized key layouts in other languages. (by binarybottle)
engrammer
Arno's Engram layout for programmers (by sunaku)
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engram
Posts with mentions or reviews of engram.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
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Unsatisfied with colemak qix, should I switch to something else?
No problem, see this discussion on the Engram forums for more ideas on Q and Z placement: there are non-magical solutions such as combos, hold-taps, etc. In particular, this layout has been applied successfully to an even smaller 26+6 keyboard, as a precedent.
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APT (V1?) vs Engram
I've considered both the earlier version of APT, as well as Engram, with these layouts putting punctuation on the center index columns.
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Starting my journey with colemak. This title took me about 2 minutes and cost me a headache.
See my Engram 2.0 review as well as my programmer-friendly adaptation for details.
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Just ordered 3x keyboards! Sofle Choc, Charybdis, and the new v2 Dilemma! Never had a split before and want to see what works for me!
On leaving QWERTY, you might also consider Arno's Engram 2.0 layout, which places all punctuation in the central columns so that your 8 touch typing fingers go straight up and down, effectively staying in their columns all the time. I've used Engram exclusively since the past 2 years (after 6 months of BEAKL-15, 16 years of Dvorak, and 6 years of QWERTY) and I've written about my experience with it here. Moreover, if you prefer standard shifted pairs (e.g. so quotes don't shift into parentheses), I've created a programmer-friendly variant called the "Engrammer" layout that helps maintain cross-proficiency with standard keyboards.
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Getting tired of Colemakā¦
And if you prefer standard shifted pairs (e.g. so quotes don't shift into parentheses), I've created a programmer-friendly variant called the "Engrammer" layout that helps maintain cross-proficiency with the standard shifting model.
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The Great Polish Layout Challenge
The discussion on Github is here: https://github.com/binarybottle/engram/issues/46
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Engram[mer] - Arno's Engram layout for programmers
Specifically, the main distinction between this layout and Arno's Engram, is that this layout retains standard shifting (e.g. Shift-Quote produces DoubleQuote rather than OpenParenthesis) in order to lower the cognitive barrier when having to use standard or non-programmable keyboards. This discussion elaborates further:
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A take on Workman: Workman-LD.
One of the few that acknowledge this is engram: https://github.com/binarybottle/engram
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Why are there no spanish layouts?
I've already talked with the dev to try to create a spanish variant of Engram, but since this is a subreddit of some keyboard layouts nerds like me who have some skills in creating layouts, I ask YOU if you could help create the perfect spanish layout. It's not easy, maybe too complex right now and there needs to be some adjustment... but come on, we NEED a spanish layout! 500 million of potential native writers will thank you for that in the long therm.
engrammer
Posts with mentions or reviews of engrammer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
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[video] Symbol Layer in "Glorious Engrammer" keymap for Glove80 keyboard (Programming + Vim)
The balance emerged over time through experimentation and real-world use (i.e. it wasn't necessarily a formal design goal that I set out with) but it appears to do quite well if we consider the various measures of symbol frequencies in programming along with the fact that ,.-; are centrally located in my base layer's Engrammer layout for convenient access.
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Unsatisfied with colemak qix, should I switch to something else?
Have you considered Arno's Engram 2.0 layout or my programmer-friendly variant thereof? Arno Klein used Colemak for 10 years before inventing Engram. Check out the "Why a new key layout?" section for his rationale & motivation that led him to venture beyond Colemak, as well as the design philosophy that sets Engram apart from other layouts. His experience might best answer your question since he has used both layouts.
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Starting my journey with colemak. This title took me about 2 minutes and cost me a headache.
See my Engram 2.0 review as well as my programmer-friendly adaptation for details.
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Per-key RGB indicators for Miryoku home row mods & layers in Vial/QMK
Author's note: * Source: Vial/QMK * Keyboard: Remnant * Layout: Engrammer
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Just ordered 3x keyboards! Sofle Choc, Charybdis, and the new v2 Dilemma! Never had a split before and want to see what works for me!
On leaving QWERTY, you might also consider Arno's Engram 2.0 layout, which places all punctuation in the central columns so that your 8 touch typing fingers go straight up and down, effectively staying in their columns all the time. I've used Engram exclusively since the past 2 years (after 6 months of BEAKL-15, 16 years of Dvorak, and 6 years of QWERTY) and I've written about my experience with it here. Moreover, if you prefer standard shifted pairs (e.g. so quotes don't shift into parentheses), I've created a programmer-friendly variant called the "Engrammer" layout that helps maintain cross-proficiency with standard keyboards.
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Best layout for the future
So far I've done some research and have particularly liked Arno's Engram and Halmak. As good as both of those are, they are not popular at all, especially compared to Colemak (normal or DH), but are some of the best. I do not mind the number keys (and the symbols on them) of QWERTY so I'd like to retain that, but I have played around on keyboard editors for a bit and am confident that I can customise a layout to retain that pretty easily (somewhat like Engrammer).
- Engram[mer] - Arno's Engram layout for programmers
What are some alternatives?
When comparing engram and engrammer you can also consider the following projects:
halmak - The final version of the AI designed keyboard layout
APT
Karabiner-Elements - Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later.
keyboard_layouts
ULKL - Uniform Latin Keyboard Layouts - intuitive, nationalized, multiplatform, powerful, and basically 100% mutually compatible (also with Dvorak)
IQKeyboardManager - Codeless drop-in universal library allows to prevent issues of keyboard sliding up and cover UITextField/UITextView. Neither need to write any code nor any setup required and much more.
barrier - Open-source KVM software
pnohty - Pnohty Python play for tiny split keyboards
Canary - Canary keyboard layout
Rommana - A 30 key well powered by Xiao BLE