Keyboard Shortcuts

December 21, 2007 at 8:45 am (informative) (gmail, gmails tips, key shortcuts, wordpress, wordpress tips)

Some of the most useful keyboard shortcuts for our favorite web services.

WordPress :

All letters uppercase – effectively, it means you have to press Alt+Shift+key

Alt+P – publish
Alt+B – bold
Alt+I – italic
Alt+Q – Blockquote
Alt+T – more (Read More tag)
Alt+U – ul (Unordered list)
Alt+O – ol (Ordered list)
Alt+L – li (list item)
Alt+A – link
Alt+C – code
Alt+S – ins
Alt+D – del

Gmail :

c – compose a new mail
/ – puts your cursor in the search box
k – move to newer conversation
j – Move to older conversation
n – next message
p – previous message
o or Enter – open a conversation
u – return to conversation list
y – archive a conversation
m – mute (archive and make all future messages from this conversation skip the inbox)
x – select conversation
s – star a message or conversation
! – report spam
r – reply to a mail
a – reply to all recepients
f – forward message
Esc – escape from input field
ctrl+s – save draft

key combinations:

tab then Enter – send message
y then o – archive your conversation and move to the next one.
g then a – go to all mail
g then s – go to starred conversations
g then c – go to contacts list.
g then d – go to drafts
g then i – go to inbox