Are 42 Keys Enough? | Using A Multisteno As My Main Keyboard

Last month I got myself a PC and didn't feel like cluttering my desk with a 90-key keyboard. Instead, 42 keys and stenography have been more than enough for me!

I quite like the concept of this one since it allows you to have one hand free for the mouse.

I'm probably not going to share my keymap for my Multisteno since I'm still tweaking it from time to time. Besides you should customize it for your needs and preferences!

0:00 Intro
0:56 Modifier Dictionaries
1:23 Emily's Symbols Dictionary
1:48 Navigation
2:13 Modal Movement Dictionary
3:36 First Up Chord Send
4:24 Double Tap Chord Repeat
4:49 Coding Example
5:10 Shortcomings of Plover
5:43 Multisteno Customization
6:42 Shortcomings of My Setup
6:57 Gaming
8:25 Outro

[justnobody]

I love how many plugins are just "Name's Modifiers" It shows how much personalization there is with the steno architecture. I have yet to get into it myself but it is fascinating just how it all meshes together. I mostly use a laptop so maybe when I get a PC one day.

[zackrobat]

Thanks for the excellent high-quality content!

[Vermoot]

Once again, great video. I'm not even surprised :D

[MakiPlaysGames]

I recently got into steno and I just ordered an ecosteno. So challenge accepted: I'll find a way to game on the ecosteno.

[RobertMassaioli]

I was just thinking earlier today: I have not seen an Aerick video in a while and then boom. Great video as always. The lack of sticky modifiers is a big problem that I'm glad that the hardware community is solving since the software side of things is not going to solve it.

What I really want to see is a single keyboard that I can "just plugin in" and it can be my 100% driver for everything (except gaming). I feel like with what you are talking about the Multi-steno and the Polyglot keyboards are probably the community gold standards right now.

[jan-Juta]

I'm only at the beginning of my steno journey but have been using a 34 key keyboard for a year now (44 previously) and never had an issue with non-steno typing once I got used to the concept of layers. Even gaming isn't too bad once you get used to customizing layouts for individual games, my 34 key has gotten me through keyboard heavy games like starcraft 2 without issues with some tweaking.

Love the videos and hope you keep it up, you've been an inspiration to get into steno as a programmer with hand dexterity issues. Thanks!

[JeffreyMann]

I have a Polyglot keyboard on the way and am excited to try to learn steno. This helped answer a lot of the questions I had about how it'll work for non-writing functions! Your videos are all excellent!

[reikwaza]

Love your MegaMan Zero and ZX wallpapers! I got the same ones!

[chachan]

Heyyy noticed megaman zero background over there! HUGE megaman fan over here 🙌

[geoffreyzziwambazza]

I found about you on Reddit. I love your content

[jabadahut]

I find for gaming with my splitography (when I can't adequatly game using my xbox controller which is my preffered method of playing most games) the qwerty layer and an MMO mouse plus rebinding keys in game (or using an external key mapper that I run before running the game if it's poorly programmed) solves the low key count problem.

[thisduck_]

Hiya. Any progress on a video about updating/customising the firmware?

[mrs.specksynder]

:0 you've got me interested in steno, I may just do it. The only problem is that I only have a laptop so ;-; it'd be unwieldy

[danilopiz]

Where can I buy that multisteno keyboard

[triple_lei]

I got a Multisteno myself, but I had to switch out some keycaps so I could better feel where I should place my hands without having to look. If I could just figure out how to disable the thumb row number bar keys in steno mode, that would be swell. Like do I really need a new firmware or is it buried somewhere in the Plover settings?

[redcoder]

Honestly, for gaming, I would just plug in a controller and use that. But, some people don't have those, so in that case the best bet would be sticking to a normal keyboard.

[kh]

Newb question - I notice no one has any labels on keys, probably because they have multiple roles but is it common for steno boards to have unmarked keys?

[shinobiwannabe]

I wonder if any viewer accidentally got pwnd by the forkbomb 🤣

[xtdycxtfuv]

What are you studying in Uni anyway? EE?

[amarhashim]

I think I wrongly checkout The Uni instead of Polyglot. Ha-ha-ha put extra money and get two keyboards (QWERTY and Steno) in one device. Never mind, let by gone be by gone. 🤣