Our favorite keyboard for iPad. August 4, 2015. The Belkin Qode Pro is the Cadillac of iPad keyboards. It comes with a shell for the iPad to clip into that works in conjunction with the keyboard itself. Plus we'll send you our productivity guide for free! Guides & Courses. All the Things. Productivity and task management training, plus.
This may come as a surprise, but as the makers of, we here at TextExpander have a thing for keyboards of all shapes and sizes. If you’re curious about how and what we use to type on our Macs, PCs, iPhones, and iPads, you’ve come to the right blog post.
Keyboards for our Macs & PCs Let’s start with our daily drivers. As one might expect, a good number of the staff use the keyboard that came in or with our MacBook Pros, desktop Macs, and PCs (did you know we released?). But a number of us ventured beyond the original box to clickier pastures for keyboards, such as:. – popular ‘round these parts.
Keyboard apps for iOS When it comes to app keyboards, our options are a smidge more varied. Turns out the TextExpander staff uses some useful, fun, clever, and important stuff on our iPhones and iPads:., natch., also natch. A few other GIF keyboards, including Apple’s. – built by a TE staffer!. External keyboard for iPad Finally, a keyboard can be a great companion for iPads, and the TextExpander staff has a succinct list of favorites there, too:. What are your #FavoriteKeyboards? Let us know on Twitter.
Keyboard Favorites Windows 10
I'd avoid mechanical keyboards for development work. They simply require more energy expended per keypress which will tire your hands, slow your typing speed, and further worsen RSA-like problems. Plus SOME of them are super loud. Which will annoy the people around you.
Our Favorite Keyboards For Macbook Pro
However that's less of an issue with modern switches. Unfortunately I don't have any Mac specific suggestions for you. Most of the people I work with are using Microsoft keyboards (yes, even Mac users). One person had a mechanical but when it broke they too moved to a Microsoft soft-key keyboard. One manager has a Apple Wireless keyboard however.
Few suggestions: Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic, Sculpt Comfort, Comfort Curve 3000 Also AmazonBasics Wired Keyboard, it is chiclet style which is super nice for a workplace (stays clean, etc), and it has soft touch keys which allow you to type very expediently. The reason people are suggesting mechanical keyboards are largely because they're in vogue at the moment. They went out of style, and now a lot of younger people think they're cooler than sliced bread (since they weren't around when every keyboard was mechanical). I'd suggest that before you even considered spending $100 on a mechanical keyboard (instead of $10-15 on some of the soft touch ones) you go play with one (e.g. Best Buy, they're in the 'gaming section,' not keyboards as they're a fashion accessory).
Kinesis Advantage MPC, with the recessed keys. Here's a picture of me with the keyboard: It's very important that the keyboard is low enough so your wrists are straight. In other words, avoid putting it on top of a high desk. I've been using this keyboard since working with Richard Williamson and Paul King at Infoscape in in 1997. It does take some getting used to, and you might want to configure the location of some of the keys. I have all the mac modifier keys accessible to my thumbs on BOTH sides so that I hit the modifier with one hand and use the opposite hand for the key, almost always.
Here's a link on Amazon.