The Autocomplete Keyboard: Product announcement
building a new keyboard input system
problem: keyboards havent learned anything from mobile input systems in the past 20 years.
Lets change that.
Introducting the autocomplete keyboard.
Its simple: add 7 keys for autocomplete.
think Gboard on android how it autocompletes showing 5 options i thinks you are going to type
Key incite:
Give desktop keyboard a autocomplete feature that already is hacked in to chinese input system
What the keyboard adds:
5-7 keys for normal desktop keyboards bellow the space bar to enable autocomplete
press a number for which autocomplete you want to press
Background
The Chinese Typewriter -Thomas S. Mullaney
Thomas S. Mullaney wrote this amazing story about the history of the Chinese typewriter, and did a mindblowing excavation of the past on how a input system is born and developed for a writing system.
how it works on modern systems
here is microsoft's piyin system
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Author 
by oran collins
github.com/wisehackermonkey
