Emailing URLs the hard way
There are at least two tips floating around on the Internet at the moment, offering “faster” or “easier” ways for
One is an Automator action, the other an AppleScript.
The
If you must use a mouse, dragging the URL from Safari’s address bar onto the Apple Mail icon in the Dock does the same thing.
The AppleScript tip is clever too, but doesn’t seem to add anything either. By the time you have called the script, you could have typed the “Check this out:” which the script prepends to the URL four times. Actually, you could probably type it even faster than that.
It’s amazing what keyboard shortcuts can do.
Here is a list of ten great ones for Mail.app and a comprehensive listing of all the shortcuts documented for Apple Mail.
Or perhaps you want to make your own keyboard shortcuts for Mail.
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January 14th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
Automator action? AppleScript?
The easiest way I’ve found for sending a URL from Safari is use this keyboard shortcut: cmd-shift -i.
Using cmd-i will send the whole page as HTML, which I suppose is ‘useful’ for sending your own HTML e-mails. (create your page in the HTML editor of your choice, preview it in Safari and then hit cmd-i.
Happy new year.
Bill