A couple years ago I got an ergonomic, split mechanical keyboard.
I wanted to learn how to type on it but typing tutorials are boring.
So, I decided that it would be nice to type a whole entire novel that I had been wanting to read.
I found a website that allows you to do that but you can’t bring your own text files. If you do, you need to pay for it.
I went on to type the entirety of Don Quixote since that was the only one that interested me.
Lately, I’ve been itching to type ‘The Dispossessed’ by Ursula K. Le Guin and I’ve been slowly learning the hottest framework, Deku.
My main project got to a certain point where I finally had a working understanding about how Deku and Hyrule work with states.
So I made a toy app where I can import a novel (as .txt for now to save myself the perhaps non secure JavaScript pdf to text dependencies) and type the whole thing page-by-page.
I’m calling it: Type Novel.
It’s not the most perfect app right now but it does work. I need to fix the layout a bit. I also wonder if anyone might give me pointers on whether I’m going about capturing key presses in as ideal a way as is possible. It works but there are certain bugs that are resolved with the reset button.