Gmail Productivity
I have been using Gmail with “shortcuts on” mode for some time, and I should say it’s great. It saved me a lot of time. It’s especially useful when I use my notebook, because I don’t have to use the touchpad for navigation. Touchpad can be a really pain sometimes.
One of the challenges when you start using Gmail with shortcuts is to remember which keys does what. It’s quite a hassle to check the shortcuts page for info. And I think it’s one of the reasons why people feel lazy to enable shortcuts, because they do not want to keep going back and forth learning shortcuts.
But luckily Gmail has a better solution for it, that some of you might not know. After you have enabled shortcuts, pressing Shift + ? will bring up a semi-transparent layered window with all the shortcuts their functions. Below is the screenshot of this window while Gmail is in Compose mode. This works anywhere in Gmail, as long as you are logged in.
So are you ready to be more productive while working with your Gmail? Ready to go shortcuts?
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By edunwa on Mar 27, 2008
thanks for that post.Gmail has been good anyway
By Dining Tables on Mar 27, 2008
Frankly, I find this information amazing. I simply did not know that there was something like this available. Thank you for enlightening me.
By Rice Blogger on Mar 28, 2008
still not use to gmail shortcut
By Webmaster on Mar 29, 2008
I prefer to use yahoo mail rather than gmail. I have used yahoo mail since 2001 so I feel so familiar with that :-D
By Net Agent on Mar 31, 2008
Thanks for this handy tip. Gmail is the backup email application for our office, while another cool gmail app is the gspace one, where you can do your data backups to their servers, using some of that ever increasing free space they like to tell us about so much!
By PS3 on Apr 4, 2008
I commonly use Gmail for sending files from work to home, my ISP’s mail servers just wont accept files over 5mb.
I find the mail grouping/expanding frustrating though, that is the biggest downfall in my humble view. If it weren’t for that, I would use Gmail as my default mail handler and benefit from the extra storage.
By chinedu on Apr 10, 2008
Bravo to gmail
By Fawaz on Jul 28, 2008
I have switched from Hotmail to Gmail. Thanks for this little tip.