[Eastshire]

Originally Posted by nickrego

Now, if you choose to use one, use it as a Back-up to your brain, and not the main count keeper. So, after each pitch, you indicate / announce the count, then you take a quick glance at your Indicator while it is up in the air, and make sure it matches the count in your head.

This is precisely what I do. I indicate the count on every pitch starting with the second and verbalize every other count and interesting counts (3 balls or 2 strikes). I almost never have the count wrong but I double check it as I put my hands down with a simple turn of the wrist. I also find it necessary to have as my mind does a hard reset when a runner scores and I have to reload the count.