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[Tutorial] A couple of tutorials on how to use/understand Nintype.

This tutorial is written based on Testflight versions of Nintype.
Most of the advanced settings below are not available in Simple mode. Unlock them by turning on Advanced mode. For Simple Mode users, start with the Spacebar Popup Menu.

Some of the features below share the same page with each other so make sure you scroll after clicking; for example, Swipe mode and Peck mode link to the same page, when you click on Peck mode you will see the Swipe mode heading but just scroll down to find Peck mode.

UI, Toggles, and Settings

Swiping and Typing

  • Swipe mode
    (construct words using a combination of two-finger swiping + key taps)
  • Peck mode
    (for pecking urls and odd spellings and such)
  • Backspacing
    (delete a single character, undo delete, delete continuously, and more)
  • Spacebar options
    (cursor sliding, compound words like GitHub, double tap for period, and more)
  • Autospacing while typing
    (this isn't the incidental autospace after a punctuation thing)
  • Alternative boards
    (symbols, numpad, period key slide board, emoji, calculator)
  • Auto-stuff
    (autocaps, autocorrect, autospace after non-alphabets, punctuations)

Shortcuts

  • Chords
    (like Ctrl+C/Cmd+C shortcuts but with spacebar or shift key instead of Ctrl/Cmd)
  • Chord Gestures
    (like Ctrl+C with extended gestural sliding on the C key)
  • Edge Slide
    (with extra pinnable shortcuts in the slide menu per key)
    (sliding on the top or bottom row of alpha keys, and return key)
  • Accents
    (with extra pinnable shortcuts in the popup menu per key)
    (press-and-hold on a key to insert more characters; works everywhere)
  • Period-key Slide Board
    (accent shortcuts work on these keys too)
    (slide on the period key to access a secondary shortcut keyboard)
  • Key Remap
    (remap the key to insert some other character or string; works on some of the alternative boards)
  • Quickpaste
    (make your iOS keyboard shortcuts work with nintype)
  • Extra top rows
    (toggle the top bar for 2 more rows of keys, shows one row at a time)
  • Action shortcuts
    (how to use these shortcuts to do actions and not just simply insert text)
  • How to set, edit, and remove shortcuts
    (for all types of shortcuts above)

Spacebar Flicks

  • Flick Word
    (flick upwards from spacebar to change word)
  • Flick Autocomplete
    (flick in 4 directions from spacebar to autocomplete per word)
  • Chain Engine Autocomplete
    (flick and scroll upwards from spacebar to autocomplete sentences)

Top Bar

Emojis

Themes and Aesthetics

Others

Posted Dec 15, 2014, 9:17 AM UTC · edited

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