Are You a Pro Gmail User?

While you were in a restaurant have you ever wished there was an interactive display menu on your table which displayed items like hot-water/sugar/sauce/salt/finger-bowl/bill-please/spoon and some other frequently asked items by the customers? Well, I atleast have!, It is a pain to make an eye contact with the serving community in the restaurant (atleast in bangalore). Who wouldn't benefit with such an interactive system? It clearly folds the time and effort of both the customers and the food servers. Agreed?


Hello anybody there....., can I please have you for a minute? I am not doing very well, can you please help me with a glass of hot-water? *coughs*

Vs

At the press of a button the server gets you a glass of bubbling hot water. 

I am not making an attempt to landscape our over popu-polluted Bangalore onto Sion. This blog is an effort to convince 99.99% of the computer literates to understand the power of using keyboard shortcuts in an application such as gmail.  We spend most of our time (or should i say all our time) toggling between the inbox/chatbox/searchbox of gmail and we seldom make efforts to sharpen our axe of locomotion within gmail. My estimated-estimation is we can save 3.5 times our time if we deploy the keyboard shortcuts in the gmail battlefield. It is right to call it that, isn’t it? Place where you e-breakup, e-makeup or even e-makeout at times ;-) (or should I replace the letter e with g, just like how the word e-mail today means g-mail.)

Cut-the-Crap and get to business:

1. In your Gmail window enable settings>general>keyboard_shortcuts_on
2. Sign out from Gmail and Sign in back.
3. Tantadaaaaan! there you are ... your gmail is now ready to interact with you using keyboard shortcuts.
4. Press ? key on your k/b and you will get a list of keyboard shortcuts.
5. Learn a shorcut or two a day and you can master all of them in 1 month.
6. This is such a value addition --you won’t believe-- that you will save a few years in your life from now. Mouse is to key board shortcuts is like using a king-fisher airlines in place of BMTC - which unfortunately isn’t a service that can either be replaced or improved in Bangalore.
7. If you find keyboard shortcuts nightmarish, just learn these 3: 'c' for compose, 'q' for chat box, '/' for search box and finally 'Alt+F4' to close gmail and get some real work done :-)) !!!!

Would love to see your comments telling me how employing k/b shortcuts added so much to your life span :-)