Whether you’re a hard-core Thunderbird user or, like me, just dip into Thunderbird from time to time, you will benefit from Leslie Franke’s Thunderbird cheatsheet.

It’s hard to keep all those shortcuts in your head, so a single page that sets them all out by category is a great tool:

You can view it as a web page or download the PDF.thunderbird, cheatsheet, shortcuts, documentation, email, not apple mail, keyboard

Studies have shown that using the keyboard is faster than using a mouse.

Not everyone agrees. In 1989 Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini (“Leading authority on software design” — HotWired) revealed that:

We?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ve done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts:

?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing.
?¢‚Ǩ¬¢ The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.

This contradiction between user-experience and reality apparently forms the basis for many user/developers?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ belief that the keyboard is faster.

Interesting as this perception vs. reality debate is, I have long wanted a way to create iCal ToDos that didn’t involve fiddling around with a mouse. And here it is.

ZooDo is a small app that allows you to create iCal ToDos without touching the mouse once.

After installing the app, launch it using Quicksilver (or LaunchBar or Butler or other launcher of choice). It presents you with the following dialog:

The cursor is already sitting in the first field, ready for you to type.

Typing and tabbing gets you to the Create button. It’s possible to get trapped in the Notes field where the tab key stops moving between fields, but Control-Tab gets you out. Hit Return and you are done.

Mouseless To Do creation. Feels faster to me.

ZooDo is freeware (donations not refused) and is available from the developer’s web site .