RE: Wheel mouse/track ball/keyboard/left brain-right brain/zone

["Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>]

Jim Shaeffer <jims -at- spsi -dot- com> wrote:

>
>Dick, 
>What motivation do the users that you describe have for learning 
>all those shortcuts? 

Productivity. The (high) value of their time. Avoiding the awkwardness of the way they do it now. (Understand that I'm talking about some fairly basic tasks that these people do frequently in programs they use all day long, not something arcane they'll never need again.)


>My desktop is already an avalanche of program icons. Adding a doc 
>file to it means I'll never see that doc again (Well, almost never.)

Yah, me too. But I was referring to a situation where it's there already, if only for the moment.

I should add that I've received one off-list response tending to refute my hypothesis. The correspondent indicated that she is accused of being left-brained by her coworkers but nonetheless loves her shortcuts. So there's one data point agin' me.

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