Peter Vandenabeele
Gmail shortcut keys
Wed, 23/01/2008 - 12:53 — peterv
Just subscribed to the rubyonrails-talk mailing list. With 180 mails/day, a reasonably high traffic list. To process this, I was thinking back of the good old "mutt" days, when it was so easy to process hundreds of mails with just a few key presses (no need to use slow mouse movements at all).
Checked it out and turns out that Gmail also has a reasonable set of Shortcut Keys. In a previous life, the 'd' was the most useful button (conveniently positioned under the left middle finger, base row). With gmail, that will now be "x#" (select and delete), a little less convenient than 'd', but still much better than using a mouse to select and delete. I did not see the option of reassigning shortcut keys.
Anonymous wrote:
Deleting is so old school...
You better assign incoming messages a label via a filter, and archive them instead of deleting, so you can use Gmail as a search engine on that mailinglist.
And deleting is not the best option on a mailinglist because new replies to the same conversation will keep pouring in.
It's better to "mute" a conversation so that the conversation is archived, and new replies in the same thread will not show up anymore in your inbox!
Shortcut key "m".
Search for "muted" messages you still want to read with the "is:muted" search query
Pascal Van Hecke
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peterv wrote:
Pascal,
Thanks for the hints. I am aware of the filters of course, but I use them for content I want to keep. I really prefer to take the effort now to only save what it somewhat relevant (just in case I need to export the whole mail archive at some later date). Searching the mailing list will probably work just as long as searching my gmail will work, since it is a mailinglist managed by Google ... Anyway, I did install a filter, but that is to avoid being distracted by each individual mail.
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