[And you can try it if you want!](https://github.com/spotless-developer/japanesekeyboardV1) If you have a windows computer that is.
I’ve long been struggling with writing in Japanese on my Swedish keyboard, and I didn’t really like the input methods I could get natively from windows. However I found the [keyboard I could get on my smartphone](https://imgur.com/a/1tOYlEh) was very easy to both understand and use. So I thought: “The numpad’s layout looks quite similar, maybe I can use it as that kind of keyboard?”. However I didn’t find anything like that on the internet, so I made my own as an Autohotkey script.
[It looks like this](https://i.imgur.com/oeFZ3kp.jpeg) and can write both hiragana and katakana, dakuten and han-dakuten, along with some numbers in kanji. However it can’t write other kanji yet. After posting this in /r/LearnJapanese I got suggested to pair this script with [Googles Japanese Input](https://tools.google.com/dlpage/japaneseinput/eula.html?platform=win) which works really well.
I would love to hear your thoughts on it and if you can give me any suggestions for how I can improve it further I would love to hear that too!