Hacking Gmail

Gmail Power Tips
N
ow you’ve integrated Gmail into your desktop and moved
all of your mail over into it, but before you start to rip the
application apart, you should look at the ways to use
Gmail to its limits. This chapter does just that. This book is not
just about using Gmail itself but rather hacking the application to
do other things. Nevertheless, you’ll need the techniques you are
about to discover in later chapters. They are also all very useful in
their own right.
Keyboard Shortcuts
The keyboard shortcuts available within Gmail are, without any
doubt, the quickest route to speedy productivity within the appli-
cation. The time investment in learning the keyboard shortcuts of
all of your computer’s applications always pays off, as you are able
to navigate your system much more quickly than before. Instead
of reaching off the keyboard, grasping the mouse, moving it to
the right place and clicking, keyboard shortcuts allow you to press
just one button. You don’t lift your hands off the keyboard, and
when you’re really good at typing, you don’t even need to look at
the screen.
Activating the keyboard shortcuts is simple. Go to the Settings
page and turn them on there, as shown in Figure 3-1.
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