I recently bought the NocFree lite wireless split keyboard. I’ve been using the Microsoft Sculpt keyboard before, which is no split keyboard, but it already is slightly angled, so that my hands learned to not reach to the other side. Therefore moving to a fully split keyboard has been quite smooth.
But since NocFree doesn’t offer a version with international or German layout, it also means I have to unlearn typing with the German layout. Since I still write quite a lot of German, I also still needed a way to write German Umlaute äöü
despite using an English layout.
With a bit of research I found the EurKey layout, which seems to be perfect. It keeps all the keys from the US layout, but adds European characters hitting right Alt + [key]
combinations. ä
for example is typing right alt + a
.
If you want to give EurKey a try, I’ve installed this version 1.4 on my MacBook.