a rubber for the keyboard on the laptop.
it helps for a few reasons:
a) feels like a new keybaoard: bonus!
b) the rubber feel makes it feel like a more deliberate effort TO type, like Logitech Keys-to-go(?) I had back when, a rubber paperthin slab of rubber with the tiniest of button receivers within. I could type thought I didn't know I was having yet with that thing
c) it has a black bg for keys, big white letters for...letters! So I can type in the dark just fine (no backlight)
so I can tyoe with the kitchen light on just above me, won't give off glare on this $183 HP14 Evy laptop from WM (running Debian 12, soon openSUSE)
So this works.
scratch that - about 12 typos in two seconds there, hopping back to large display and mech keyboard
nice night, y'all! coffee and fresh rural air here! :)
~bartender, a Red Eye. double if I can. all nighter here!
Practicing safe tactile, now, are we?
Kudos on the diversity of your keyboard colors.... <coughs>
Not exactly related, but I went through a phase where I thought writing and/or doodling on a 3x5 card, and uploading a photo thereof might be an interesting twist on this activity.
Example: https://midnight.pub/posts/962
(click on image link therein)
There can be a strong element of content planning required given editing consists of either starting all over again, or being able to tolerate inevitable smudge :-) if/when erasing pencil, or cross-outs if/when working with ink.
(Of course, as usual, dialing down the pickiness slash concern with what others might think is the most effective prescription....)
So between that planning and the execution, it's a much slower approach to this. But despite winding up being of lesser word count, I suspect I'd feel I was getting more from experiencing others' handwriting and/or doodles.
I even spent some time creating a stand to hold my phone facing down so I could take a photo of a 3x5 card from a consistent distance with zero hand quiver.
(I went with phone over computer because the camera in the latter produces photos not nearly as crisp.)
For me, the biggest detractor was my wife is (to put it mildly) almost never impressed when my attention is other than her/our direction, and whereas I can mostly conceal this activity when it's screen/keyboard, standing over a phone stand perched over a 3x5 card is more than a little obvious evidence that my attention/focus has been elsewhere.