Mac OS X’s built-in Services can help you work smarter and faster in Mail.app (and elsewhere).

Third party Services plug-ins offer even more options.

Peter Maurer, creator of Textpander, Witch and other productivity gems, has released a utility that helps you manage your Services menu.

My Services menu is clogged with services from old deleted apps and functions that I will never use. With Service Scrubber I can restructure the menu, change the keyboard shortcuts for each service and even disable unwanted ones.

Service Scrubber is donation-ware and available from Peter’s web site.

UPDATE: As Marc Bizer points out in the comments, you can also use Service Manager, a third-party System Preference plug-in from Blacktree, to manage your services menu, although it has slightly fewer features.

UPDATE: (23 December 2005) Peter has released an updated version of the app (1.1) that finds system-owned services more easily and has some additional features.

Tags: keyboard shortcuts, mail.app, Productivity, Services, Textpander

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