Keyboard shortcuts are great time-savers, as everyone knows. The only problem: you need to remember them to save the time.

KeyCue is a nifty little app that will — at a single keystroke (by default the ⌘ key) — list all the available shortcuts for the currently active app, in this case Mail.app and iCal:

Press another modifier key and the screen will highlight the matching keys in yellow. Select the shortcut you couldn’t remember, and the screen disappears.

The app’s Preferences pane offers option to customise the keystroke which calls the app, the contents of the window and when the window should disappear.

KeyCue is shareware (USD 14.99) and is available from the developer’s web site .

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Gmail is made faster and more efficient by a range of keystroke shortcuts .

Now Mozilla users can enjoy the speed boost in Thunderbird and Fastmail customers can also get some of the bonus with a Greasemonkey script.

GmailUI is a extension that brings these Gmail keystrokes to Thunderbird.

After installing it, open the extension’s preferences to see a list of the keystrokes it offers:

You can get it from the Mozilla Extensions site .

Fastmail.fm Shortcuts is a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that brings some but not all of the Gmail shortcut to Fastmail’s webmail interface.

It offers the following keystrokes:

Installing Greasemonkey scripts is a little more tricky than your average extension, but installation instructions and the script itself can be found in the Greasemonkey userscript.org repository .gmail, firefox, greasemonkey, scripts, extnesions, thunderbird, email, keystrokes, keyboard shortcuts