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This tip is going to be a gmail tip and I am going to show you how you can add interactive keyboard shortcuts to your gmail account using a script called greasemonkey. So just bring up Google and type in the search term greasemonkey and click on the very first result. It should be Greasemonkey Firefox Add-ons.
On the resulting page, just click Install Now and install it. And then it will ask you to restart Firefox so go ahead and restart it. And when it comes back up, at the very bottom right hand corner, you should now see a little smiling monkey icon.
So now, go back to Google and type in the search term greasemonkey scripts and the first result should be userscripts.org. So go ahead and go there and on their website, search for modify gmail macros. And then you want to select Modify Gmail Macros Version 2.0. And on this page, click on Install this Script and go ahead and install it. And it will tell you if it is installed successfully or not.
Now, with all the technical stuff out of the way, go to gmail.com and we can play around with it. The first thing you want to do is type in “H”, this brings up the Help command, the Help Box and it shows you all the different commands that you can use to navigate through gmail using just your keyboard. So the first thing we are going to do is type in “G” and start typing in the name of a label. For instance, I just typed in “GKW” to go to my query labels and then you can type in “X” to select an email or “S” to start and then you can use your arrow keys to navigate to the next conversation and things like that. You can also type in “G” and then “ST” for instance to go to your Start folder or “GI” to go back to your inbox or “GC” to go to Chat. And you can just kind of mess around with that. And do not forget, if you want more shortcuts, just type “H” and it will bring up the list of shortcuts.
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