Increase your gmail productivity and URL tricks
Here’s a nifty Gmail tip:
There’s always little tips and tricks to gmail and I don’t know of a single person that knows them all. I may have accidentally found another feature (unless someone else found it first). Let’s say you have 20 emails in a row that you want to delete. Clicking 20 times before you can delete them is annoying. Click the first one. Hold shift and click the last one. All the emails between the first and the last ones you just clicked will be selected for you.
A URL Trick:
Do you ever get tired of typing the “http://www.” and “.com” and wish there were an easier way? There is and it works in Firefox, IE, and Opera (and very likely more). Type the name of the website. For Daily Cup Of Tech, it would be “dailycupoftech” and leave off the other stuff. Hold Control and hit enter. The extra gets filled in for you. Depending on the browser you’re using, Shift+Enter and Ctl+Shift+Enter take you to .net and .org domains (respectively). So stop typing those extra 15 keystrokes. Even if you’re a fast typist like me (100+ wpm sometimes), it still saves you a lot of time.
5 Responses to “Increase your gmail productivity and URL tricks”
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Brock Angelo Says:
March 31st, 2007 at 10:52 amWow, as I read the CTRL-Enter and especially the CTRL-SHIFT-Enter I was thinking, “is that really worth using??”
Uh, YA! That rocks. Man, that is so fast too. Thanks for the tip.
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Raymond Hicks Says:
March 31st, 2007 at 2:55 pmI kinda questioned the usefulness of the URL trick myself until I started using it. It’s something like half the time when you use it, less if it’s to a short domain like Fark. 4 vs. 15. Gimme the 4 every time.
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Michael Sacchi Says:
March 31st, 2007 at 6:12 pmI actually just write the name (e.g. lifehacker) and press enter. And firefox perform a “i’m feeling lucky” search on google, and 90% of the time I land on the right page.
Caveat. 90% is not 100%, that’s why I didn’t use DCOT as an example
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Mark O'Neill Says:
March 31st, 2007 at 6:24 pmRe. the URL trick, you don’t normally need to hold Control. Just typing the name of the website and hitting enter is normally enough to get to the website (if the name of the website is unique enough). The browser bar where you type the URL address uses Google to find the website. If the website name you typed is not unique, you’ll be taken to the first website in the Google search results.
Cool deletion tip though.
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Rooster's Rail Says:
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:12 amMake Typing URL’s Easier and Be More Productive…
So this might be old but I don’t care, I had never heard of it. This hack works in Firefox, IE and Opera and more than likely others as well.
Take the name of a website and type it into the address bar
Hold control and hit Enter
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A Good Girl's Guide to Being More Productive Says:
September 8th, 2007 at 1:21 pmSend yourself text messages with iCal If you use your smart phone to keep track of appointments and meetings, then consider using this tip which utilizes iCal’s SMS reminder software. From Daily Cup of Tech:Delete a row of emailsIf you are in the process of archiving your email or just want to get rid of all emails from the nasty ex-boyfriend, check out this tip From Digital Inspiration: Mute yourself out of an email string
