Description

This is an Anki deck for remembering the Colemak keyboard layout.

Use

Most easily, you can use the shared deck on Ankiweb. If you want to build from source, see below!

Installation

This deck is managed with anki-dm. To install anki-dm, you need to run composer install.

Building

This will build the CrowdAnki decks.

composer build

Working around an (apparent) anki-dm bug

After building you need to manually copy src/media/_colemak_blank.svg into build/Colemak keyboard layout/media/, and insert it into the list of media files. Hence this is the “full” set of build commands:

composer build
cp -a src/media/_colemak_blank.svg 'build/Colemak keyboard layout/media/'
sed '/"media_files"/ s/$/\n "_colemak_blank.svg",/' -i 'build/Colemak keyboard layout/Colemak keyboard layout.json'

Importing into Anki

To import into Anki, you need to install the CrowdAnki add-on, and then import the directory at build/Colemak keyboard layout/.

Disclaimer

The deck is obviously not intended as a replacement for actual practice of using the keyboard, just as a replacement for hanging up the layout beside your screen (which is what’s suggested on the main Colemak website).

License

All the images (in src/media/) are based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_US-Colemak.svg, and are hence under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Everything else is released into the public domain (unlicense).