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> I'm not saying that you wouldn't be able to do this with a web-based mail client. In fact, using gmail should take fewer strokes than that. Assuming you hav

> I'm not saying that you wouldn't be able to do this with a web-based mail client. In fact, using gmail should take fewer strokes than that. Assuming you have a keyboard shortcut to spawn a gmail window, enter will take you to the first message, and 'e' will archive that message. Command-Q/Alt-F4 to quit. Labels can be applied with an 'l' and the label name, next/last message is 'n'/'p'. The full list of keyboard shortcuts is available here: https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6594 https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6594 It would, of course, be better if they let you customize the shortcuts and sped up the loading of the initial page.

Stratoscope 15y ago
You can customize the keyboard shortcuts. Go to Labs and enable Custom Keyboard Shortcuts, then go to town! I changed a bunch of my shortcuts, for example an operation I do quite often is "select all unread, them mark as read." But I couldn't remember the shortcuts they assigned - they didn't seem mnemonic at all. I changed them to SU for Select Unread and MR for Mark Read. Bingo!
nkurz 15y ago
I'm not sure it's universal, but I have "Custom keyboard shortcuts" available under Labs that let's me customize as desired. Click on the non-intuitive gear-shaped icon in the upper right corner to check if it's there for you too.
a3_nm 15y ago
> It would, of course, be better if they let you customize the shortcuts and sped up the loading of the initial page. Those were the main things I had in mind (along with adequately customizable desktop notifications). As for shortcut customizations, the Labs feature isn't as good as a configuration file in my opinion (slower to edit, harder to share, harder to diff, etc.). As for the loading of the initial page, I still wonder why it takes so long... You could probably get a nice setup by keeping a Gmail window open and assigning a shortcut in your WM to display this window, but it's not a common feature in WMs.

Stratoscope 15y ago

You can customize the keyboard shortcuts. Go to Labs and enable Custom Keyboard Shortcuts, then go to town! I changed a bunch of my shortcuts, for example an operation I do quite often is "select all unread, them mark as read." But I couldn't remember the shortcuts they assigned - they didn't seem mnemonic at all. I changed them to SU for Select Unread and MR for Mark Read. Bingo!

nkurz 15y ago

I'm not sure it's universal, but I have "Custom keyboard shortcuts" available under Labs that let's me customize as desired. Click on the non-intuitive gear-shaped icon in the upper right corner to check if it's there for you too.

a3_nm 15y ago

> It would, of course, be better if they let you customize the shortcuts and sped up the loading of the initial page. Those were the main things I had in mind (along with adequately customizable desktop notifications). As for shortcut customizations, the Labs feature isn't as good as a configuration file in my opinion (slower to edit, harder to share, harder to diff, etc.). As for the loading of the initial page, I still wonder why it takes so long... You could probably get a nice setup by keeping a Gmail window open and assigning a shortcut in your WM to display this window, but it's not a common feature in WMs.