Ask HN: Temporarily using one hand, help
I cut a tendon in my hand at the weekend and I won't have use of my dominant hand for 6 to 8 weeks. I live in Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and the browser.Any advice on how to live with one hand temporarily?
First, you can turn on sticky keys. (I think you can activate it by pressing "shift" five times in a row.) This means that keys like shift, control, and alt "stay pressed" if you press and release the key, so that you can press control, release it, then press p (or whatever), and Windows reads that as cntrl-p, even though you weren't holding down the control key when you pressed the p key.
Second, you can reverse the buttons on the mouse, if that makes it easier for you.
But, you're just going to be slower for 6 to 8 weeks. There's no way around it. (On the plus side, you might gain some dexterity in your non-dominant hand.)
We don't think of ourselves as "people who work with their hands", but we do...
I tried one of the mirroring apps many years ago and it didn't take long to become pretty quick using it.