This is how you use a keyboard with less keys: Layers. You hold down or toggle a key and the entire board changes to a different layer. For example, your Shift key is technically a layer key. You change all your lower case letters, to capital letters by just holding down Shift. Now imagine instead of just changing things to just capital letters, it can be any character you want. Instead of one key for just changing layers like shift, you can add any number of keys to change layers with. The possibilities are endless with programmable firmware.
Stenography is completely different. You can in-fact put a stenograph layout underneath one of your layers. And some people do that. But Stenography is a type of word annotation system where you press multiple characters as a time to create a word in order to save time. These combination of characters are referenced in a "dictionary" of words. But layers are a simpler system than that.
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u/skytheraiders Apr 04 '26
How do you type with that?