Ricardo, That was very very useful. Dragging an item off the favorites bar in Lion mail has been a mystery, but no more. Thanks a lot. On Jul 24, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
> Hi, > > I just want to say, thanks to the person who mentioned using the favorites > bar. Its freaking amazing. lol. here's what you do, if the favorites bar > is not already shown press command option shift H to show it. Now go to your > mailbox table and interact. Navigate to the mailbox you want in favorites > and press VO comma to mark the mailbox for drag and drop. Now stop > interacting with the mailbox table and navigate to the favorites bar. It is > near the toolbar btw, and press VO period to drop the mailbox into to the > favorites bar. Now, you can press command plus the corresponding number to > jump directly into the messages table for that mailbox no matter where you > are in mail. You can double check what number your mailbox is by going to > mailbox in the menu bar and opening the go to favorite mailbox sub menu. > Even better, you can move messages from one mailbox to the next with a > keystroke. When on the message you want to move all one needs to do is add > control to the favorite mailbox command. for example, lets say my > Macvisionaries mailbox is the first item in my favorites. It would be > assigned the number 1 to to jump to it I would press command 1. Now lets say > my gmail inbox was the 2nd item in favorites so it would be jumped to by > pressing command 2. Now lets pretend I wanted to move a message from the > macvisionaries mailbox to my gmail inbox. I would just have to be on said > message and press command control 2. > > This is a really, really, cool feature. To remove a mailbox from the > favorites bar you can't use the new drag and drop method. Here's how you do > it though. Interact with the favorites bar and navigate to the mailbox you > wish to remove. Now if your mouse cursor is not following your VO cursor you > will need to press VO command F5 to move the mouse cursor to the VO cursor > manually. After that, press VO command shift spacebar to do a mouse down. > Now, stop interacting with the favorites bar and VO right arrow once to the > mailbox table. Finally just press VO command shift spacebar to do a mouse up > and you will hear Mail make a sound to indicate the mailbox was removed from > favorites. Keep in mind, if you don't have your mouse cursor set to follow > your VO cursor, when you move to the mailbox you will have to move the cursor > manually again with VO command spacebar. Btw, the keystrokes can be found in > the menu bar under mailbox then explore the go to favorite mailbox sub menu > and the Move To Favorite Mailbox submenu. > > hth > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > On Jul 23, 2011, at 5:48 PM, Keith Watson wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Funny enough I have switched from using quick nab in mail to not using it. I > now switch between my mailboxes and message area using the tab key and only > use quick nab to have the messages in a thread read automatically when they > don't. > >>> I find this to use much fewer key strokes and am glad Scott finally >>> convinced me to do it this way. > > > Keith > On Jul 21, 2011, at 8:11 AM, David Taylor wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm playing with the new layout too. I just use Quick Nav a lot more than I >> used to in mail. I wonder if quite a few of the changes will make me default >> to having quick nav switched on most of the time now. I certainly like the >> way the preview is working for me as there are quite a few messages I would >> probably have opened before that I am not doing now. >> >> Cheers >> Dave >> >> On 21 Jul 2011, at 11:56, Zachary Kline wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> I wanted to give my impressions of the new OS X Mail, which I'm slowly >>> coming to grips with. I've decided to force myself to use it in the new >>> layout, and have actually had some success with it. >>> To begin with, the VoiceOver Getting started guide suggests using it with >>> the VO cursor, and I have to agree. Doing it this way seems to be quite >>> fast, and is working quite well for me. You can jump quickly between the >>> table of messages and the message proper with vo-j. >>> Conversations can either be expanded or not, depending on whether you need >>> to work with the individual messages in them. By default it seems the >>> focus is on the first unread message of every conversation, and they are >>> displayed in reverse-chronological order, which makes sense to me as you're >>> likely to be concerned with the recent messages over the older ones. >>> Attachments work pretty much as they always have. You'll find a popup >>> button in the message headers allowing you to save them, and a Quick-look >>> button allowing you to preview them. This all requires the VO cursor for >>> navigation, of course, but thus far I've had no real problems with it and >>> in fact it is quite similar to how I used mail in SL. >>> I hope you all give the new Mail a chance to work as intended before >>> immediately jumping into the classic layout, as effective as that still is. >>> Best, >>> Zack. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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