I Accidentally Found My New Endgame Mouse

What I'm about to say is going to sound crazy, but hear me out. There is a chance MMO mice are actually the most slept on productivity devices of all time. How did I find myself saying this? Well, the other day, my rider Tyson came into work just like he does every day, but this time he had brought in his own mouse. I had provided him with such a nice wireless mouse from Keychron. I'm a good employer, I swear. But lo and behold, I go over to his desk to investigate, and the mouse he brought in wasn't a normal work mouse. It was a six-button MOBA mouse from Logitech, which made no sense to me. I pay him to write, not to play Dota. But apparently, there is a method to the madness. According to him, he assigns all the buttons on the side to useful work-related functions. Likely story. But the more he talked about all this, the more I started to become seriously curious. Most mice have two side buttons, one for back and one for forward, and that's all I've ever really considered. But what if there was also a button to move my windows over a monitor, or a button to take a screenshot? That sounds interesting enough in its own right, but here's the real kicker that activated my curiosity. He said the software that powers these sorts of mice, they allow you to have different button assignments depending on what you're doing. So in theory, I could have a button to move windows around when I'm browsing the web, but that same button could cut clips when I'm editing videos, or use my ultimate ability when playing a game. Don't get me wrong, I am by no means fully convinced of this concept yet. I have a lot of questions, but you know what? If nothing else, he's got me curious. So let's go on this journey together. The journey of figuring out if gaming mice with a billion buttons are somehow secretly the best office mice out there. Or if this whole thing is a scam and my writer is just playing games at work, and I should probably let him go. The mouse Tyson brought in was a Logitech G604, which they no longer make. So I can't simply just copy his workflow, but that's okay because I have an even grander idea. The MOBA mouse he has uses six buttons, which is a lot, but there's a level even farther beyond. If having more programmable buttons is the possible key to unlocking productivity, then why not go to the max and try out an MMO mouse? MMO mice have like twice as many buttons to play with. I did a fair bit of digging online and even begrudgingly ventured into a scary place known as the World of Warcraft subreddit in an effort to learn which MMO mouse would work best for this journey. There are a lot of viable options out there, like the Corsair Scimitar Elite, but I kept hearing dodgy things about Corsair software, so I was a bit hesitant. Thankfully, there was one name that I kept hearing often, the Razer Naga. Time and time again, I kept hearing the MMO nerds mention this thing. And importantly, the most common model I kept seeing is on sale for only $70. For these kinds of mouse, that is a solid deal and you know how much I love a deal. I did some quick double checking, and best I can tell, Razer software supports switching profiles depending on what application you're using, which is exactly what we need. I do hear people complaining about Synapse all the time, but mainly because it's always in the background. So I'm prepared to take that hit in the name of science. So I decided it was time to pull the trigger, and you know what that means, a field trip to our beloved Micro Center, who did not sponsor today's video. They don't have a display for the one we're looking for. Since we're buying it ourselves, we could just get the regular one and save like half the cost. Okay, let's do it then. Now that I had the mouse in hand, it was time to try this crazy lifestyle out. Wow, I'm surprised how big this mouse feels. 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I really thought hard about what things I do a thousand times a day that would be nicer with a single click. And the first thing that came to mind was one Tyson had talked about before. Working at a multi-monitor setup, I'm constantly moving Windows from one screen to another. I have to grab it, move it over, and click. Maximize. None of that is a huge deal, but do that 200 times a day, and you're wasting a lot of time. So for my first binding, I set up one of the buttons to a shortcut that moves a window left one monitor at full size. And then another with the same thing, but moving the window to the right. Now look at me! I'm moving Windows around like a pro. No manual drag and drop necessary. Then I thought even more about what I do every day. One big one came to mind. Copying-pasting! How many times a day am I moving my hand over to the keyboard to copy and paste? Surely hundreds a day. Boom! That's another two buttons covered. It took me a little while, but I eventually came up with button assignments for every single button here. Look, I even had enough at my disposal that I assigned these two to bring up my YouTube channel in my analytics. That's a hilariously unnecessary amount of luxury. The point of this idea isn't just assigning these one set of buttons, this entire experiment relies on automatic profile switching. Depending on what app I'm in, if I'm say editing a video for a members-only content, I don't care about launch snipping tool or back button. I want a button to cut a clip or ripple delete. And that was where my first major problem revealed itself. In Synapse, I created a new profile. I associated it with my editing software, but when I opened up the software and clicked on it, nothing happened. So now I'm having to manually switch the profiles back and forth. It's obviously no good. It needs to be automatic. So does Synapse not support the automatic switching after all? Suddenly my $70 savvy purchase was feeling a bit less savvy and maybe a bit more foolish. I didn't give in to despair though and did some digging online. Turns out I'm not the only one doing this wrong, but there is a solution. Apparently associating the app is not enough. I also had to go into the linked games tab, then devices, then associate the applications there. What is even the point of the games tab then? Why is it first in the tab list? Razer, if you're listening, please make it make sense. The long story short though is that I did in fact get it working. Check it out. Automatic switching. This is a thing that in theory will unlock true productivity. I won't bore you with the details, but I basically went through the same brainstorming process as earlier, but this time for DaVinci Resolve, which I use to edit videos. I just sat down and thought about what annoying button combinations I use most often and worked on outsourcing them to my mouse. If this works, never again will I have to meticulously press Alt V to paste clip attributes to a new clip, which believe me, I do often. With my main bindings and my editing binding setup, I figured I was on the verge of overwhelming myself with buttons to remember, so I stopped for now and just started using the mouse. To be honest, for a while I wasn't exactly having a great time. The shape of the mouse really does make it cumbersome to hold in my tiny hands and I kept having to reopen Synapse to remind myself, what even my bindings were. I'd go to press the paste button and then Windows Explorer would pop up. I'd go to press the snipping tool, but instead my window would move to the left. Why? Interestingly, I actually didn't have too much trouble getting used to pressing the buttons themselves. I was worried going into this that with 12 buttons crammed into such a small space, I'd be mis-pressing constantly, but nope, turns out the bigger problem was getting used to what I made the buttons do in the first place. When this really began to click was those DaVinci bindings though. Initially, I only had seven of those buttons bound for DaVinci. I don't know, I guess I was just leaving bindings for stuff I didn't know at the time, but it turns out that starting with a smaller subset of buttons helps you get used to the mouse. Less to remember meant less to forget and within even the first day of editing with a mouse, I was getting used to pressing a mouse button to do small things like cutting clips. I mentioned it earlier, but ripple delete is one of those most frequently used buttons in all my editing workflow and up until now, it was bound to the backspace key, which doesn't sound annoying, but please believe me when I tell you, constantly taking your hand off the mouse just to press delete or even the other side to press delete and then having to find the home row again probably hundreds of times an hour, it gets annoying fast. So once that mouse button began entering my muscle memory, I started to get what the fuss was about and honestly, the more I used the mouse, the more buttons pierced that muscle memory. At first, it was just a couple. I was using instinctively. Nothing special there. I could do that on my regular two button mouse, but by day three or four, I was no joke using six different buttons regularly while editing. Slowly but surely, the same also became true for my default desktop bindings as well. As of recording this, I've only had this mouse for about two-ish weeks, but I'm to the point now where the idea of moving a window over manually sounds like abject torture. Why would I lower myself to such a menial task when my mouse button could do it for me? I have to be honest though, even though I was starting to get the swing of things with this whole multi-button automatic profile switching business, there was still one thing nagging at the back of my mind. One thing that just made this whole idea entirely null and void. The shape of the mouse. I know, I sound like I'm a big baby, but you have to understand, I'm a small person. I have small hands. The way this mouse is shaped is just not made for someone my size. The hump in the back makes it feel so much bigger and perhaps even worse is this finger rest on the right. With most mice, the right face is more or less flat and vacant so my ring and pinky fingers can grip that edge naturally which works perfect for picking up the mouse and repositioning it. But with this little rest, my ring finger goes there and it's solely up to my weak little pinky finger to hold one side of the mouse while picking it up. Just, I was genuinely getting used to the functionality of the mouse but the form factor was ruining everything. The story doesn't end here though because wouldn't you know it, while I was in the middle of testing this mouse, Razer reached out to our channel and shipped us some random non-sponsored goodies and one of those goodies was this nice premium version of the mouse. The Razer Naga V2 Pro. Check this thing out. Not only does it have fancy lighting but it also has these hot swappable face plates. Most importantly, there's one key difference with this mouse for me specifically. I've stared at these two mice side by side for minutes on end and I can't for the life of me manage to physically make the difference out. But I promise you, the Naga V2 Pro feels smaller. I think it's the hump in the back. It's maybe smaller or less bulbous. Maybe the entire thing is just a millimeter less wide. I can't tell you but when I hold this version, suddenly my hand no longer feels like a toddler's hand and also maybe I'm going crazy but my pinky has an easier time gripping the side of the mouse when repositioning. This is a great example of how a hands-on testing is really important because on paper, they look identical but in real life, they aren't and boy, does it make a difference. I loaded up the new mouse, transferred over all my existing bindings and everything just kind of fell into place from there. The only thing that really took some adjusting with this new version was losing the infinite scroll wheel. The cheaper mouse has that which used to sort of be a Logitech thing and I love it so much. It's so useful but somehow the more expensive mouse loses this feature. I guess it's to enable their fancy customizable scroll wheel technology but it's really not worth losing my precious infinite scrolling, that's for sure. With the comfort situation sorted, I even branched out from my desktop bindings and DaVinci bindings and created profiles for a game or two. Behold, no more taking my hands off WASD to use my abilities. Also as an aside, I honestly think if you're playing shooting games on keyboard and mouse and you don't have melee and grenade bound to your mouse side buttons, you are sorely missing out. It makes so much sense. Like PC games are made to be played this way. So at the end of it all, two weeks in, with the newness of it all worn off, how do I feel about it? Well, first of all, let's just get this out of the way one more time. This is a very silly sounding idea. I certainly thought it was silly when I heard Tyson talking about it. He endured a fair round of good natured getting made fun of for a day or two but as stupid as it sounds, I think there really is something to it. I'm at the point now where the idea of having to press a keyboard button or click something on the computer to pause music just sounds outright primitive to me. And that's not to even mention the editing situation. You can rip my paste clip attributes mouse button from my cold dead hands. But I do also understand that even if the idea itself is cool, it's a bit of a big ask. Even the less expensive mouse I bought myself is still almost a hundred dollars. That's a lot of money. The V2 Pro is $150. Also the idea of a mouse having a learning curve at all is crazy work in itself. But after these couple weeks, I see the vision. It's not as crazy as it sounds. If nothing else, my advice is this. If you are any sort of gamer and have been thinking about maybe upgrading your mouse situation in the future, I think it's worth considering springing for an MMO or a MOBA mouse. At the very least, you'll get a nice mouse to up your game and from there you can try out the whole automatic profile productivity angle. It takes a little bit of time to get used to but once that muscle memory is there, look, I'm not crazy. No one bully me. It really is cool. I swear. I'm not crazy. You're crazy. Get out of here. Watch another video.