For me, mousing has been consistently and terribly painful. I bought a right-handed Evoluent mouse (I am right handed) and it worked wonders, until a period of particularly intense mousing, at which point I bought a left-handed model.
Now, I primarily use the left-handed Evoluent mouse. During periods of intense mousing, if I start to feel pain, I'll switch to the right-handed Evoluent mouse for a week or two.
You mentioned wanting a mouse which put your hand at an angle in between a standard mouse (horizontal) and the Evoluent mouse (vertical). Is there a particular reason for this?
I ask because I've found the Evoluent to be incredibly comfortable. Besides which, a vertical orientation most closely emulates the position your hands would be in when you are anatomically at rest (standing, with your hands hanging down at your sides).
As much as I love the Evoluent mouse, I still feel that eliminating mousing from my computer use is the Right Way to address mouse related pain. Treat the root cause, not the symptoms, as they say.
I basically use keyboard shortcuts for everything. The two parts of using a computer which I found most difficult to control with a keyboard were web browsing and window resizing / management.
For web browsing I stumbled upon Chrome + the Vimium extension. It has non-chording key bindings for switching tabs, moving around on the page, following links, copying (yanking) text, etc. Basically, Vimium adds Vim-like keybindings to many common browser tasks. Find it here: http://vimium.github.com/
For window resizing and management, I use Moom (it's a Mac application). It is fantastic. You can setup key bindings to resize a window to a preset dimension, among other things; but that's what I use it for primarily. I have 3 key bindings that I use all the time: 1) full screen, 2) two thirds on the left side of the screen, and 3) one third on the right hand side of the screen. Moom is here: http://manytricks.com/moom/
I've also become aware of Slate for window management on the Mac, which looks amazing, but is a tool of the large investment / large payoff sort, and I just haven't had much free time lately. Slate is here: https://github.com/jigish/slate
Now, I primarily use the left-handed Evoluent mouse. During periods of intense mousing, if I start to feel pain, I'll switch to the right-handed Evoluent mouse for a week or two.
You mentioned wanting a mouse which put your hand at an angle in between a standard mouse (horizontal) and the Evoluent mouse (vertical). Is there a particular reason for this?
I ask because I've found the Evoluent to be incredibly comfortable. Besides which, a vertical orientation most closely emulates the position your hands would be in when you are anatomically at rest (standing, with your hands hanging down at your sides).
As much as I love the Evoluent mouse, I still feel that eliminating mousing from my computer use is the Right Way to address mouse related pain. Treat the root cause, not the symptoms, as they say.
I basically use keyboard shortcuts for everything. The two parts of using a computer which I found most difficult to control with a keyboard were web browsing and window resizing / management.
For web browsing I stumbled upon Chrome + the Vimium extension. It has non-chording key bindings for switching tabs, moving around on the page, following links, copying (yanking) text, etc. Basically, Vimium adds Vim-like keybindings to many common browser tasks. Find it here: http://vimium.github.com/
For window resizing and management, I use Moom (it's a Mac application). It is fantastic. You can setup key bindings to resize a window to a preset dimension, among other things; but that's what I use it for primarily. I have 3 key bindings that I use all the time: 1) full screen, 2) two thirds on the left side of the screen, and 3) one third on the right hand side of the screen. Moom is here: http://manytricks.com/moom/
I've also become aware of Slate for window management on the Mac, which looks amazing, but is a tool of the large investment / large payoff sort, and I just haven't had much free time lately. Slate is here: https://github.com/jigish/slate