I just received an OQO-style moleskine in the mail!
When I opened it up, it was full of arcane tricks for using InkSeine's Tool Ring as a flick pad. This topic has come up before but now it seems that perfect combination of custom flicks has been discovered.
This is the new set of Flick gestures that I've adopted for the OQO. Show Desktop is especially handy!
- Right flick mapped to Alt-Tab - great for flipping between two windows. This one you need to manually configure by choosing the (add) option from the drop down.
- Down flick mapped to "Toggle Ctrl" which is one of the standard choices in the drop-down. I use Ctrl with the ToolRing's scroller to zoom.
- Diagonal-upper-left flick mapped to Right Click. Also a custom combo, just hit the right-click soft key on your TIP to add this one. (It shows up as "Application" when you press it).
- Up flick mapped to Show Desktop - my absolute favorite! A quick flick up on the Tool Ring always gets me to my desktop, which is a handy place to stash all your shortcuts on a tablet. This is also a custom combo consisting of "Windows + D", where Windows is the Windows logo key.
Here are my notes... flick up to Show Desktop:
Voila! There it is! But even better... doing Show Desktop again... puts me right back where I was!
I'm also debating whether I want to replace Undo with Enter instead. It's handy for opening selected files without double-tapping. I guess I'll have to see. But I'm keeping Copy, Paste, and Back for sure - unless I find something better the next time I flip back to this idea!
Here's the return address label on the back cover. I have no idea who this is. And it's been a long time since two cents cut it for postage. It's all a bit mysterious. But whoever you are, keep the tips coming!
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