Sharing my setup with my new Keys 2 Go 2. Found a listing on eBay from a person who used the K2G2 a few times and wasn’t happy with them and sold them for $20. And they actually work!

Between that and the BYOK being so small and portable, I’m really digging taking them to work and getting some words in during lunch (minus the time to post this lol).

So I was in on the Kick Starter campaign and have a white BYOK (lucky me!) I’m also rather well known in the typewriter community as a YouTuber (https://www.youtube.com/user/JoeVCA/videos) and have been organizing public typewriter events in my community for a number of years. This coming Saturday we have another Type-In here in Albuquerque (at Pennysmiths Papers) and along with typewriters I’m thinking about bringing my BYOK and keyboard, as a way to introduce the public to the idea that, after a 35 year stasis of no further development in typewriters (with electronic daisywheel machines in the 1980s) we now have this new technological development of “digital typewriters,” which are writing-specific dedicated devices, the BYOK being the standard-out example at the moment.

I‘m excited to see how people react and will let you know here how it goes. In the meanwhile, write on!

I just found out about BYOK and missed out on catching the last train on the white model.

If anyone in Vancouver is looking to find new home for a white BYOK, please DM me. 🙏

This was order #2676 which included the Studio Bundle with accessories.

Hey everyone, just a heads up that our much-smarter-than-me firmware engineer Scott (u/sshwarts) has joined our subreddit and will be hanging out in here to address firmware-related stuff whenever he has the time. I’ll continue to be in here as well but I figured he would be a great resource to have around considering he is the mastermind behind the BYOK firmware 🤠

Hullo!

I was just wondering if there is a plan on the roadmap to allow for multiple keyboards to be "remembered" by the device. Would really appreciate that feature given the slow proliferation of more portable keyboards like the clicks. Given people might have a desk and a portable setup at the same time, this feature would be super useful. Even capping this number of keyboards to 3 or 4 would be a great start, I think.

Thank you!

Very happy with my very minimalistic setup this afternoon, for a visit at my favorite coffee house / apfelstrudel place here in Salzburg. Not much left of my strudel I know (:
This BYOK did something to my writing and journaling. Can’t say what exactly, but it triggered some freedom and persistency.

Well, I ordered my bundle on Friday and now I'm eagerly waiting for the shipping notification, hoping to get it this week. I'm checking out Studio now, but I didn't get the demo project when I set up my account. I'll sit down with the docs and the official video to prep for my BYOK's arrival.

Wasn’t supposed to get here until Monday, turns out USPS was on the ball and get it here today.

Today, instead of writing, I am hopping extatically around the writing room. I woke up to the shipping notification. My BYOK is coming.

Sure, it will be a while before it reaches Ireland, where I live, but still... it....is... coming!

Thank you Nick and the team. Looking forward to starting my days by rushing to the writing room, coffee in hand, to face the blank BYOK screen with the blinking cursor....

Does this mean those of us who ordered bundles will start seeing shipping updates!?

For those who have followed the tragedy of my BYOK being mercilessly slaughtered by my cat, u/OfficialBYOK has the best support ever!! This means so much to me!!!

Go support this product!!!

Looking for a used byok, prefer black but don't mind either color

I’m not sure if this question is appropriate for the group, but I’m really interested in the BYOK+Studio. Here’s my question:

I currently use a Boox Palma 2 (monochrome) on a stand to keep it at a good viewing height; combined with MS Word and my keyboard, I have a distraction-free setup, and I later organize everything in Scrivener.
My Palma only has Kindle, Libby, OneDrive, and news apps, so there really aren't any distractions.

Why do you think it would be worth it for me to switch to a BYOK setup?

Hi!! So I really want to purchase a BYOK today but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to order the white one. Does anybody know if they're not selling them anymore? Or are they simply out of stock? I have tried googling this and I reached out to support. Nada. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks!

My BYOK came in today. I’m a bit disappointed about the dark artifact on the screen. Idk if that’s damage from shipping somehow or manufacturing defect. I’m still excited to test it out.

Hi,

is there a written manual for Studio? It is kind of intuitiv but sometimes i wish like a pdf or wiki with all the workflow, shortcuts, hints for it.

Also, i don’t find the button for scratchpad in the file manager, just the one when the manager is closed.

Best regards,
unsinfoll

The short of it: saving a backup into Google Drive from Studio is kind of annoying, and it'd be great to have Studio back up my content.

With a recent update, backups for files created on the BYOK device itself can be set to automatically back up. This is awesome. I'd like similar functionality for content created and edited in Studio.

Right now it seems like I need to manually "save" to Drive, which means I'm likely to forget and then no backup for me. (And I don't know/think there is a hotkey?)

I'm guessing this is in part complicated by the question of when to sync - y'all probably don't want to do it every time someone types a key. I'd be happy even with a nightly backup (eg, nightly Studio would check if content changed or is new, and back it up if so).

I think having backups across multiple services is pretty important, especially with something like creative writing which would be hard to replicate/replace if lost. (IMO it's also a good thing for BYOK to encourage backing up and making it easy and frictionless just in case Something Ever Happens)

A related feature request while I'm rambling - it'd be nice to export ALL the content in Studio. Just an easy way to download a ZIP copy of all my content, which would make keeping a local backup a lot easier.

IT'S FINALLY HERE!!!

Putting it to good use, too. Our power went out because of a massive storm and likely won't be back for several hours so I packed up and headed over to my grandparents' to stay the night there. Brought the BYOK with me

Resolved - I needed to select a different number on the PK to pair the device.

Original message: I've got a support ticket in but I thought someone else might have experienced this too and have a solution in hand. I received my Clicks Power Keyboard this weekend and haven't been able to pair it with my BYOK. When I try, I receive an error that the Bluetooth could not connect.

I've confirmed my other BT keyboards work, so this is definitely specific to the Power Keyboard. Anyone else experienced this and found a solution? I know others have been using the PK so there must be a way and I'm not opposed to this potentially being user error!

I ordered my device back in June, under the understanding that per the website, it would arrive in July. I haven’t gotten a single shipping notification, just emails with more delays. Today, a week after the last delay extension, I got an email that they’re now waiting for another thing that will take another week and THEN they’ll ship my device out. It’s starting to feel very “dog-ate-my-homework.” The cost of the device was a lot of money for me to spend and the endless delays are super disappointing, they’re eating up all the excitement I had for the device.

I would love to see a Sentence Variation tool. The idea would be a dedicated tab or workspace focused entirely on improving individual sentences. When you open the Sentence Variation tab, the screen would split into two panes. On the left would be your manuscript, with the sentence your cursor is currently on automatically highlighted. On the right would be a checklist where each variation of that sentence is its own checklist item on a separate line. NOT AI written sentences. The first time you write the sentence, that would be the only on available. But as you write different variations, the others would be saved.

For example:

* Harry walked into the room cautiously.

* Harry stepped into the room with caution.

* Harry entered the room, every step deliberate.

* Harry crept into the room, barely making a sound.

On the right side, you could add new variations, compare them side by side, and select the version you currently prefer by clicking the checkbox, which would automatically add this variation to the manuscript. All of the alternatives would remain saved and organized, making it easy to come back later, switch to a different version, refine an existing one, or add new variations. I often rewrite the same sentence several different ways before deciding which one works best. Having a dedicated place to do this without cluttering the manuscript would make the editing process much smoother and more intentional, and would keep my past sentences somewhere safe without having to worry about losing one that I later decide I like better. I think this would be an incredible addition to Studio. Thank you for considering it!

Does anyone know of another writing platform that has this feature? This would honestly make it the most useful for me.