Quickly email a link from Safari
The current “Tip of the Week” from Apple describes 
how to email a URL from Safari.
It’s as easy as pressing ⇧⌘I and then sitting back while Mail.app creates a new message containing the link.
That’s it.
I hesitated about posting this, but sometimes tips aren’t as well known as you might think, like using ⌘] and ⌘[ to cycle through the available HTML, Rich Text and plain text views of an email, or using Gmail-like “Conversation” views in Apple Mail.
If you use some other browser, you will have to make your own arrangements. OminWeb users can use a bookmarklet to send a link, Firefox users can customise their toolbar by adding a “Send Link” button and Camino users can uses ⇧⌘L.
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September 28th, 2006 at 10:29 am
And in Camino there’s a pretty button which even makes the subject of the e-mail the title of the site. Imagine that…
September 28th, 2006 at 10:43 am
The keyboard shortcut does that too. At least, it does for me.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:45 am
My bad. Point is, Camino has a button. ;-)
September 28th, 2006 at 10:46 am
Good point :)
September 28th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
I used toread.cc, bookmarklet does the trick, then I can set up a rule in Mail.app to gather all pages sent via toread to the mailbox called “toread”, nice and easy.
September 28th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
I prefer to use the simple, command-i and send the whole page when I’m sending to myself.
This helps when you’re trying to set up mail to act like yojimbo… I think you have a link of it somewhere
September 28th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
Does this work with any other email program?
Try it - set your “default mail handler” to, say, Thunderbird and hit cmd-shift-I in Safari.
Why, no - it launches mail.app.
Does it use a documented method so that other mail programs can implement it cleanly? Why no, it doesn’t do that either.
Feh.
September 28th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
@mandaris - Sure. I didn’t mention it as I know of a lot of people who don’t like to get a barrow-load of HTML in their inboxes.
@Marshall - Why would you want to use any other mail client? :)
September 28th, 2006 at 6:08 pm
Is this Tiger only? I’m on Panther - doesn’t appear to work for me.
September 28th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
FWIW, Omniweb has had a “Send Link” button for donkey’s (at least since version 5.0, if not earlier). Add it to your navigation toolbar by customising it. Alternatively, just select Send Link from the File menu. No bookmarklet required.
September 29th, 2006 at 5:06 am
This is one area where FIrefox is weak (unless there is an extension I don’t know about). The button for the toolbar only seems to open mail - it doesn’ do anything. The shortcut Command-shift-M opens a new message, but doesn’t add the link. I suppose I should attempt some applescript or something, but its easier just to highlight it to Tim!
September 29th, 2006 at 10:04 am
Scott, the toolbar button adds the current URL for me, but I think I might use using the “Send Link” Extension
September 29th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
That extension does the trick - once added and Firefox restarted, the right button shows up. Thanks much.
September 29th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
The tip omits one vital detail: it’s a tip for Safari, and not Firefox or other browser. (There’s a mention of Safari at the end, but no mention up front, where the tip itself lies.)
Apple, be sure future tips are clear on all the details!
September 30th, 2006 at 7:52 am
You can create a Bookmarks Bar shortcut if you need a button for this function by dragging any old URL to the Bookmarks Bar as a seed, then go to the Bookmarks view and change the URL of the newly-added bookmark to the following javascript:
javascript:location.href=’mailto:?SUBJECT=’+document.title+%20′&BODY=’+document.title+’%5Cn%3C’+escape(location.href)+’%3E’
I named the bookmark ‘m’ (for “mail this link”)so that it doesn’t take a lot of space on the bookmarks bar.
September 30th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
Excellent tip, Gibbons!
October 3rd, 2006 at 11:14 pm
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