Brighthand is one of my favorite sites about mobile communications and devices.On Friday, Brighthand editor-in-chief Ed Hardy posted some hearty advice applicable for those of us BlackBerry users who wish we could tap out paragraphs faster than we currently are able to.
Although Ed's advice was not specific to BlackBerry, it's certainly applicable to BlackBerry.
"The bad habit I'm hoping to break people of," Ed tells us, "involves writing a letter, waiting for it to appear and confirming that it is really the letter you wanted, writing another, waiting for it to appear, and so on."
He calls this a very inefficient way to enter text. As one who has committed this sin of inefficiency, I have to humbly agree.
"And the constant glancing back and forth between the text-entry area and
each letter as it appears is not just slowing you down, it's making your
text-entry less accurate," he adds. Keep your eyes on what you're doing, and let your
handheld take care of itself."
OK, so what should you do when the mood strikes to look at your screen to see that the letter you have tapped is there?
"Just write the letters one after another," Ed counsels. "As soon as the feedback lines
disappear off the screen, write the next letter. Keep your eyes on the
text-entry area, and write as fast as is comfortable."
Once you've completed your paragraph, then and only then go over it and correct any typos you may have made.
