Genuinely curious if the item types in as shown in the article are that helpful though. They seem small, fiddly, hard to distinguish between, and not especially intuitive.

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breppp 2 days ago | parent [-]

did not undergo a stroke, but I find myself often navigating menu by memorizing the location in the menu, I also use the icons for memorizing and then I can speed up by not reading.

The first time I noticed that is the time I needed to operate a Finnish Windows machine and I could get it working pretty good by sheer memory

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troupo a day ago | parent [-]

Then I'd argue that not having icons on every item in the menu, and having groups/separators helps more than just having nearly indistinguishable icons everywhere

	▲	breppp a day ago \| parent [-]
		maybe, but over use of groups can also be confusing I find icons helpful to visually anchor things in the menu. It can be noisy when there are 5 identical "paste as" icons but generally I see it as a positive