It's that yearly moment where I reminisce about my Palm PDAs and Pocket PCs of old, and I realize that I actually miss the stupid Palm Graffiti alphabet as a stylus driven input method.

When you got good at it, you could jot down things shockingly quick. Unfortunately, It also ended up shaping my already weird and shitty handwriting into something weirder and shittier still.

I haven't been comfortable taking notes on anything not keyboard driven since.

#Palm #pda #RetroComputing #PalmOS

Seeing the photo of the Palm screen listing "Graffiti" reminds me...

I could approach *thirty words per minute* with my Palm devices.

The trick was the well designed "shorthand" called Graffiti. Basically, every letter (with the exception of 'X') was a single stroke. It was genius! 👍 💕

On my iOS devices I can barely input three words without a typo... 🙄

>>>>> WHY ISN"T THERE A GRAFFITI INTERFACE FOR IOS?!?!? <<<<<

It would be SO much better than typing with my thumbs.

Searched and found this on an Apple forum...

May 22, 2014 8:29 AM

"I'm with you on this request. I've tried several of the note-taking and handwriting apps for iOS but NOTHING is even close to the ease and efficiency that Palm Graffiti offered for handwriting recognition."

"Even Apple's old Newton handwriting system was better than anything out there right now."

Note the year 2014. No answers since then as far as I can tell?! 🤷‍♂️

#Apple #IOS #Graffiti #Palm #Handwriting #UserInterface