Windows Keyboard Shortcut of the Day

Fire up Gmail, and chances are you’re going to want to search for a particular message. The quickest way to do that is hit the / (slash key, down by the question mark) which jumps your cursor up into the search box. Type in your search phrase and press Enter. After a few seconds, you’ll see a list of messages with that phrase.

Now you can use J and K (as we discussed) to move up and down messages, and Enter to open a message. When you’re all done, don’t forget G, I to go back to the Inbox.

I’d like to thank Russell Bradley-Cook for urging me to spend some time on Gmail, and for pointing out that the J and K keys can be used even when you’re reading messages. Try it out!

We’ll spend some more time on Gmail next week.