There are at least two tips floating around on the Internet at the moment, offering “faster” or “easier” ways for emailing a URL while browsing in Safari.

One is an Automator action, the other an AppleScript.

The Automator tip makes hard work of emailing a URL. It’s clever, but it seems to add nothing new. The keyboard shortcut Shift-Command-I in Safari will create a new email with the URL in Mail.app.

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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Tags: Automator, email, emailing a URL, keyboard shortcut, mail.app, Safari

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