Jeffrey and the Jarne Blade!!

Last week I got to meet the amazing Jeffrey Lim, aka Tharelia, inventor of Javelin, the Jarne, and the Jarne Blade, in person!

And he generously gave me a Jarne Blade of my own!! I love this thing so much. I can't even tell you. It's so TINY! And the keys are slightly heavier than the ones on my beloved featherlight Jarne, but they're so shallow that the actuation pressure matters much less than it does with taller keys. I'm planning to use it primarily for fiction writing anyway, rather than captioning, so even if I'm a little slower on it, that's no problem. It's so portable, it fits easily in a pocket -- I even wrote a few paragraphs onto my phone with each half in one of the pockets of my shorts, and that worked shockingly well. I'm so in love with this little device. And Jeffrey was an absolute joy to hang out with. I'm so grateful to him and everything he's done for the Open Steno community!