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Stop Touching Your Mouse.

Stop Touching Your Mouse.

Tips and Tools for keeping your hands where they belong.

Dave Takahashi

March 10, 2013
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  1. STOP TOUCHING YOUR MOUSE. Tips and Tools for keeping your

    hands where they belong. Dave Takahashi @davetakahashi
  2. Why, Dave? Studies by DePaul University: Mouse = faster for

    the casual user Keyboard = MUCH faster for practiced users
  3. Why, Dave? *A practiced keyboard user can perform 600 -

    800 ms faster PER ACTION than a mouse user. *Even more for multi-layer menu commands.
  4. TIPS. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE * Repetition (Muscle memory) * Recall

    (Mental memory) * Reprimand (Emotional memory)
  5. TIPS. FIRST STEPS 1. Learn a key command and force

    yourself to use it often. (I recommend an app switching key) 2. Once you are doing it without thinking about it, add another one. 3. Observe your habits and replace them. Look up key commands.
  6. TOOLS. APP SWITCHING AND LAUNCHING * App switcher * Multiple

    Desktops * Alfred / Spotlight / Unity Launcher / Lion