How to Use Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts
Friday November 7, 2008
Christopher Latham Sholes designed the QWERTY keyboard in the early 1870s. In the 1880s, he tried to improve it.
One design placed all the vowels on the easily reached "home" keys for the right hand and the oft-used consonants just above — to make typing easier to learn and faster, I guess.
Today, the keys have new meanings in many an application anyway. In Gmail, for example, oft-used commands like "next" or "previous" are placed, yes, on the easily reached "home" keys for the right hand:
›› Navigate and command Gmail with super powers: Gmail keyboard shortcuts are mighty, ubiquitous, easy and handy.
One design placed all the vowels on the easily reached "home" keys for the right hand and the oft-used consonants just above — to make typing easier to learn and faster, I guess.
Today, the keys have new meanings in many an application anyway. In Gmail, for example, oft-used commands like "next" or "previous" are placed, yes, on the easily reached "home" keys for the right hand:
›› Navigate and command Gmail with super powers: Gmail keyboard shortcuts are mighty, ubiquitous, easy and handy.


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