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I'm really struggling with how to lay out my additional layers.

Where should I put brackets of all kinds, parentheses, underscore, dash, hash, back tick? Should I have a numpad? I just can't decide and wonder if there's already a moderately consensus best practice?

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[–] muppetjones@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

As others have mentioned, it's very much personal preference. I program with 34 keys every day with three primary layers: colemak dh, numpad, and nav. After having used Miryoku for almost two years, I've been using Callum-style mods for the past several months, and I really, really like it.

I'd recommend taking a look at keymaps in the QMK repo -- especially for layouts similar to the board you're using. You could also search github for zmk-config repos. It's a different firmware, but layout is layout.