“The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.” — Jamais Cascio

Did you know that Gmail has a host of keyboard shortcuts to make it easier for you to navigate the service? Here are a few of the most useful ones. You can find the full list in the hands of our good friends in Mountain View.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Compose (c) – Allows you to compose a new message. + c allows you to compose a message in a new window.

Move to newer conversation (k) – Opens or moves your cursor to a more recent conversation. You can hit to expand a conversation.

Move to older conversation (j) – Opens or moves your cursor to the next oldest conversation. You can hit to expand a conversation.

Archive (e) – Archive your conversation from any view.

Mute (m) – Archives the conversation, and all future messages skip the Inbox unless sent or cc’d directly to you. Learn more.

Select conversation (x) – Automatically checks and selects a conversation so that you can archive, apply a label, or choose an action from the drop-down menu to apply to that conversation.

Report spam (!) – Marks a message as spam and removes it from your conversation list.

Reply (r) – Reply to the message sender. + r allows you to reply to a message in a new window. (Only applicable in ‘Conversation View.’)

Reply all (a) – Reply to all message recipients. +a allows you to reply to all message recipients in a new window. (Only applicable in ‘Conversation View.’)

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