Words on screen.
Two thumbs tapping on a Clicks keyboard case.
Bebop for capturing the text, sending it into text files later available in Obsidian and known folders for reference and further thinking.
Because the Clicks is attached, the screen contains no keyboard. There is some minimal interface, but mainly white text on a dark background, from top to bottom.
(If the sun was up, it would be black text on white background.)
Typing like this is not faster than other options, probably not even the Iphone’s ever frustrating on-screen keyboard, but it is a lot more pleasant.
Used like this, the phone feels a lot like a single purpose writing device. Remember how they used to say an advantage of an all-screen phone was that it became a dedicated UI for each app? This is it, only more so since I dedicated hardware to getting appropriate buttons.
How much space is there? I am a bit over halfway down the screen right now, nowhere near needing to scroll to see everything.
Truly its own separate way of writing. Different ways of writing shape thoughts in different ways. This seems to have gone in a very straight line to a blog post.
Also possibly influencing thoughts is a bit of reading I just did in The timeless way of building. Every time I give it even a few minutes, I come away feeling a bit calmer, a bit refreshed, and in a mood for thinking slightly deeper thoughts.
… the polar opposite of stereotypical social media (and much other media for that matter) if you will.
I do not think Alexander would be opposed to that line of thought.
I even got some interesting thoughts in relation to our house and garden.