Comments on: Moving around Mail.app using the keyboard http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/ Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:24:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Tim Gaden http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-327303 Tim Gaden Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:38:16 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-327303 Me too ;-) Me too ;-)

]]> By: sjk http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-327266 sjk Fri, 23 May 2008 05:42:33 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-327266 <blockquote>Is there any way to move a message to a specific mailbox with a single keystroke?</blockquote> I use <a href="http://www.indev.ca/MailActOn.html" rel="nofollow">Mail Act-On</a> and <a href="http://www.tow.com/msgfiler/" rel="nofollow">MsgFiler</a>.

Is there any way to move a message to a specific mailbox with a single keystroke?

I use Mail Act-On and MsgFiler.

]]> By: Yann http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-327265 Yann Fri, 23 May 2008 02:11:10 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-327265 to AstroMunch, Nope, my inbox contains more than 300 mail boxes all sorted by customers / Projects etc.... So when I take a message I need most of the time to hold it at the bottom of the window and wait till it scrolls down to the desired mailbox. Now my faster way to do this is: (1) Ctrl click on the message (2) Start typing "move to", then I get to the "Move To" part of the menu (3) Right arrow to get to my mailboxes (4) Start typing the first letters of my maibox (5) then hit enter to place the selected message to the chosen mail box Yann to AstroMunch,

Nope, my inbox contains more than 300 mail boxes all sorted by customers / Projects etc…. So when I take a message I need most of the time to hold it at the bottom of the window and wait till it scrolls down to the desired mailbox.
Now my faster way to do this is:

(1) Ctrl click on the message
(2) Start typing “move to”, then I get to the “Move To” part of the menu
(3) Right arrow to get to my mailboxes
(4) Start typing the first letters of my maibox
(5) then hit enter to place the selected message to the chosen mail box

Yann

]]> By: AstroMunch http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-327175 AstroMunch Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:30:59 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-327175 "Actually you can, but it’s a rather hidden feature in the Mac OS X’s assistive technology" By the time you do SHIFT-CTRL-ALT-M, then use the arrows to choose the mailbox you want to move the message to, you easily could have just dragged the message there with the mouse. Is there any way to move a message to a specific mailbox with a single keystroke? This is so key for GTD best practices. “Actually you can, but it’s a rather hidden feature in the Mac OS X’s assistive technology”

By the time you do SHIFT-CTRL-ALT-M, then use the arrows to choose the mailbox you want to move the message to, you easily could have just dragged the message there with the mouse.

Is there any way to move a message to a specific mailbox with a single keystroke? This is so key for GTD best practices.

]]> By: sjk http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-144787 sjk Wed, 23 May 2007 23:56:34 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-144787 <blockquote>Type alt-up or alt-down and keep it pressed for ~1s.</blockquote> Option-up/down are useful shortcuts for navigating between discontinuous messages in a thread.

Type alt-up or alt-down and keep it pressed for ~1s.

Option-up/down are useful shortcuts for navigating between discontinuous messages in a thread.

]]> By: Yann http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-129359 Yann Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:38:37 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-129359 It works. Thanks Daniel! It works. Thanks Daniel!

]]> By: Daniel WECK http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-128744 Daniel WECK Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:54:46 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-128744 The key combo to get a contextual menu is: SHIFT-CTRL-ALT-M Obviously, the pre-requisite for this to work is to navigate to a GUI widget which supports a popup-menu. There is a thick black frame around the currently selected GUI item, so you know where you are. TAB and arrow keys must be used to navigate the user-interface. For future reference, use the VoiceOver "cheat sheet" from Apple: http://images.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/pdf/VoiceOverKeyboard_Color_v2.pdf Hope that helps ! Dan/ The key combo to get a contextual menu is:
SHIFT-CTRL-ALT-M

Obviously, the pre-requisite for this to work is to navigate to a GUI widget which supports a popup-menu. There is a thick black frame around the currently selected GUI item, so you know where you are. TAB and arrow keys must be used to navigate the user-interface.

For future reference, use the VoiceOver “cheat sheet” from Apple:
http://images.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/pdf/VoiceOverKeyboard_Color_v2.pdf

Hope that helps !
Dan/

]]> By: Yann http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-128742 Yann Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:38:12 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-128742 "Actually you can, but it’s a rather hidden feature in the Mac OS X’s assistive technology: you have to turn on the screen reader (VoiceOver) which then provides a new shortcut to trigger the popup menu." Thanks for the tip Daniel, but I'm not very sure I got it right. I went to System preferences and I turned on the Voice Over feature under "universal access". But I could not figure out how could I bring the equivalent of the right click while I was in my inbox with one of my email line highlighted. Instead I only get these robotic voices telling me every step I do. “Actually you can, but it’s a rather hidden feature in the Mac OS X’s assistive technology: you have to turn on the screen reader (VoiceOver) which then provides a new shortcut to trigger the popup menu.”

Thanks for the tip Daniel, but I’m not very sure I got it right. I went to System preferences and I turned on the Voice Over feature under “universal access”. But I could not figure out how could I bring the equivalent of the right click while I was in my inbox with one of my email line highlighted. Instead I only get these robotic voices telling me every step I do.

]]> By: Daniel WECK http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-128670 Daniel WECK Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:32:32 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-128670 "...(you cannot get the contextual menu from a keyboard shortcut)..." Actually you can, but it's a rather hidden feature in the Mac OS X's assistive technology: you have to turn on the screen reader (VoiceOver) which then provides a new shortcut to trigger the popup menu. Why are so many navigation features reserved for accessibility in Mac OS X ???!! Anyway, here's another tip to help navigating in Mail.app: Most features can be accessed via the main menu bar. So you can use CTRL+F2 to bring focus to the top menu bar, and then arrow keys and/or characters to quickly navigate through the functions. If CTRL+F2 does not work, try switching-on full keyboard functionality in universal access by using CTRL+F1. This special mode also enables CTRL+F3 to bring focus to the dock. CTRL+F5 focuses on the toolbar. My last tip to switch between several Mail viewer windows (does not require Universal Access): use APPLE+TILDA (this is the key just next to the left-SHIFT key on my QWERTY Powerbook 15". It also has the backwards single quote). This is in fact a system-wide key combo similar to APPLE-TAB, but which rotates through windows of a single application rather than switching between applications. I use it all the time !! “…(you cannot get the contextual menu from a keyboard shortcut)…”

Actually you can, but it’s a rather hidden feature in the Mac OS X’s assistive technology: you have to turn on the screen reader (VoiceOver) which then provides a new shortcut to trigger the popup menu.

Why are so many navigation features reserved for accessibility in Mac OS X ???!!

Anyway, here’s another tip to help navigating in Mail.app:

Most features can be accessed via the main menu bar. So you can use CTRL+F2 to bring focus to the top menu bar, and then arrow keys and/or characters to quickly navigate through the functions.

If CTRL+F2 does not work, try switching-on full keyboard functionality in universal access by using CTRL+F1.
This special mode also enables CTRL+F3 to bring focus to the dock. CTRL+F5 focuses on the toolbar.

My last tip to switch between several Mail viewer windows (does not require Universal Access): use APPLE+TILDA (this is the key just next to the left-SHIFT key on my QWERTY Powerbook 15″. It also has the backwards single quote). This is in fact a system-wide key combo similar to APPLE-TAB, but which rotates through windows of a single application rather than switching between applications. I use it all the time !!

]]> By: Yann http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-96636 Yann Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:18:47 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/03/moving-around-mailapp-using-the-keyboard/#comment-96636 Another nice shortcut you can use in email is this one. I have the problem to quickly put my emails into the numerous folders I have (more than 250). Instead of taking your email and dragging and dropping it in the intented mailbox you can do a right click on the email (you cannot get the contextual menu from a keyboard shortcut) and then you type "mo" to get to "move to" section, then you press righ arrow key to get the list of your folders, then you can start typing the first letters of the mail box you want to put your email in, it will direct you directly to this mail box, then you can press enter to put it in or typing again the righ arrow to get inside this folder to reach another folder. If you have all your folders displayed in Mail app left margin, you'll get also all the folders displayed (hence reachable) in the "move to" contextual menu. (Sorry for my english, I'm french...) Another nice shortcut you can use in email is this one.
I have the problem to quickly put my emails into the numerous folders I have (more than 250). Instead of taking your email and dragging and dropping it in the intented mailbox you can do a right click on the email (you cannot get the contextual menu from a keyboard shortcut) and then you type “mo” to get to “move to” section, then you press righ arrow key to get the list of your folders, then you can start typing the first letters of the mail box you want to put your email in, it will direct you directly to this mail box, then you can press enter to put it in or typing again the righ arrow to get inside this folder to reach another folder.
If you have all your folders displayed in Mail app left margin, you’ll get also all the folders displayed (hence reachable) in the “move to” contextual menu.

(Sorry for my english, I’m french…)

]]>