🧠 Built for Pure Flow & Direct Mental Dictation
When you type looking at the screen, your brain enters an endless supervisory loop: you generate an idea, type a word, and your visual cortex immediately evaluates it—triggering micro-pauses, premature editing, and broken trains of thought. TypeBuffer removes the visual monitor entirely while you write, letting you think and type in uninterrupted harmony.
The ergonomic & cognitive shift:
⚡ Bypassing the Visual "Supervisor"
Eliminate the urge to pause or micro-correct mid-sentence. Your brain routes thoughts directly from idea generation to motor execution, letting you write at the exact speed of thought.
🧘 Restorative Sensory & Visual Rest
Type with your eyes resting on a distant point or completely closed. Eliminate screen flicker, blue light, ocular muscle tension, and the dry-eye syndrome caused by staring without blinking.
🎯 The Expert Typist Advantage
For typists with honed muscle memory, blind typing transforms the keyboard into an effortless, friction-free mental dictation instrument—free from on-screen visual distraction.
🪄 The Intelligent Safety Net
Pause, and TypeBuffer cleanly flushes your accumulated sentence. If you made a minor typo or started with a language prefix (like en: or fr:), integrated AI instantly polishes or translates your text.
The Core Pillars
Combining the physical focus of blind typing with the intelligence of modern LLMs.
Blind & Uninterrupted Typing
Eliminate visual fatigue and the temptation to edit mid-sentence. Bypass the visual cortex as supervisor, write in pure flow state with eyes closed, and let your accumulated thoughts land cleanly in one batch.
On-The-Fly Translation
Simply prefix your typing (en:, fr:, es:). TypeBuffer translates your buffered text seamlessly before releasing it directly into Slack, Word, email, or your code editor.
AI-Powered Proofreading
Integrated with OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek, and LanguageTool. TypeBuffer automatically cleans up grammar and typos in the buffer so your final text is always publication-ready.
🌐 Live Translation in Action
Type smoothly in your native tongue; TypeBuffer translates with near-zero latency and injects it straight into your active application.
Engineered for Daily Frictionless Work
Reliable OS-level keyboard handling built for developers, writers, and multilingual professionals.
⚡ Instant Shortcut Passthrough
Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, arrow navigation, Enter, Backspace, and initial spaces pass through immediately without delay or buffering.
🎛️ System Tray & Settings
Hit Ctrl+Shift+Space or double-click the tray icon to pause and resume on the fly. Easily configure your preferred LLM provider, custom endpoints, and API keys.
🚀 Zero-Config Autostart
Configure TypeBuffer to run automatically on system login across Windows, macOS, and Linux without requiring admin rights.
🔒 Privacy-First Design
Your typing buffer is stored only in ephemeral memory. With translation and spellcheck disabled, no network packets ever leave your machine.
Getting Started
Run locally in seconds with Python or download a pre-built binary.
$ python TypeBuffer.py
2026-09-11 00:00:00 MASKED MODE (timeout=0.3s).
2026-09-11 00:00:00 Pause/resume shortcut: ctrl+shift+space (exit from the tray icon)
2026-09-11 00:00:00 Instant pass-through: arrows, Esc, Caps Lock, Ctrl+C/V, Alt, Win, Del, F-keys...
2026-09-11 00:00:00 Translation mode: True (Prefix with 'en: ', 'fr: ', etc.)
$ python setup_autostart.py --install