User Tip: Send messages to folders with a single keystroke
- Posted July 10th, 2008 at 3:57 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, General, Tips & Tutorials
While pouring poring through the recent submissions to the user tip form I noticed a few interesting things. First and foremost there are a lot of people using it for something other than user tips … despite my strong urgings to the contrary. Just a reminder, I’m sticking to my guns on this so any submissions that are off-topic for the form will be deleted. Once I’m confident that the process can work, I’ll look into adding other forms for other topics.
This tip comesThese TWO tips reflect the same idea, so I’ll include both submissions.
Hi,
The coolest thing is you can move messages to folders with just press of a key. Press the folder number as seen on left and that mail will be moved to particular folder.
Lets take an example. I have folders as shown:
- Banks n Bills
- e-subscriptions
- fun forwards
Now if i have a mail from my bank say ‘state from xyz bank’ all i need to do is press (number one) ’1′ key and the mail is moved to “Banks n Bills” folder.
-Vishal
Prefix the folder names with the numbers, e.g. 1.Action, 2.Archive, 3.Friends, 4.Work
All new mail provides an option to move mails to a folder by just pressing a number button. The above trick helps you to know which number belongs to which folder and also you can bring your folders in desired order no matter what their names are.
-Anil
There you have it. Single keystroke filing for any of your first 9 folders. This trick, and many other excellent keystroke shortcuts for All-New Mail can be found on the Shortcuts page in Yahoo! Mail Help.
If you have trouble finding that page you can easily access it from the Help dropdown menu whenever you need it.
Thanks again to Vishal and Anil for calling attention to a great feature that many people (myself included) hadn’t been clued in about. Your Yahoo! Mail shirts will be on its way overseas shortly!
Ryan Knight
Community Manager
Yahoo! Mail
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- 16 Comments
July 10th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
There needs to be an easier to way to move messages to a new folder. This was easy in Classic Mail as the “Move to Folder” drop-down included an option for “New Folder”, but this is missing in All-New Mail.
Now, three steps are required instead of one:
1. Add a new folder. The new folder is now opened, which is pointless because the folder is obviously empty.
2. Go back to the original folder.
3. Move the messages to the new folder.
If we can’t have the “New Folder” option back, can you at least eliminate step 2 from this procedure?
July 11th, 2008 at 4:29 am
“Poring” – not “Pouring”
See this blog posting for an explanation.
http://legbamel.blogspot.com/
Friday, July 4, 2008
Quickie Post: Pour versus Pore
An article on Yahoo! yesterday prompted me to focus on yet another word pair. Pour and pore mean two different, but easily-confused, things. The quote read as follows: “Some future researcher, pouring through Yahoo!’s old files, may be very amused that I made a big deal [about this].”
The confusion, I fear, stems from the mental image of pouring your attention over something like a cup of honey, coating it with your regard. That may work for imagery, but it ignores the meaning of the word pore.
When you pore over or through something, you scrutinize it, paying it close and steady attention. Thus, the phrase from the quote above should have read, “…poring through Yahoo!’s old files…”
To pour over something implies tipping a container of some substance, usually liquid, over that that thing. Def Leppard wants you to pour some sugar on them, apparently, meaning that you should take a five-pound bag thereof and dump it over their heads. Why they should wish that to happen, I’m not particularly sure. Perhaps they were using some imagery of their own.
July 11th, 2008 at 5:09 am
Worse, if i want to create a new disposable address (AddressGuard) i STILL have to go back into Classic Mail, and then via Options etc. And then hang around getting back into All-New Mail since i prefer to use that. Any solution on the horizon?
July 11th, 2008 at 6:35 am
This feature stopped working for me about two months (or more) ago, after I’d gotten to really enjoy using it. Actually, it still works, it just malfunctions, because it not only moves the highlighted (or currently open) message, but it moves the NEXT message in the list too! It takes TWO messages, consistently, regardless of how quickly I tap the number key. It’s happening to me on different computers and with different browsers.
July 11th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Are there any single keystroke shortcuts available for Y. Classic Mail? I’ve tried the All New Mail and don’t prefer it……..but sure would like to have the single keystroke options available on Classic.
July 11th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
@shirah,
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Thanks for the heads up. I should have pored over my post more carefully. :)
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Ryan
July 11th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Guys,
Please fix the RSS part of yahoo mail. It wont add feeds and there are feeds that it wont let me remove. It broken and it sucks big time!
Yes I reported a bug and its been confirmed by your support.
July 12th, 2008 at 7:50 am
Iam new here , and i am interested in literature and cultures , and i think that art and literature make people closer .
July 12th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Hi, how can make 3char at @rocketmail example this kos@rocketmail.com
and
how can make deactive id’s rety plz help i need these very tanx:x bye bye:x
July 13th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Glad to pour out my grammatical knowledge to help!
By the way, I am very unhappy that my classic my yahoo is being closed and I am being forced back to new My Yahoo. I left it for a reason. It was just a terrible interface.
July 13th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
it s a status if someone has read your mail or not
July 14th, 2008 at 1:59 am
Hi Sinukus,
I just tried adding and removing RSS feeds and it worked fine. Once I had this problem that few feeds were added through my “MyYahoo” page and I couldn’t delete them from All-New Mail. Deleting the feeds from MyYahoo page had helped me, you might try it as well.
-Anil
July 14th, 2008 at 11:33 am
I just want to know,are you thinking of giving us a free pop3 or IMAP access ?,at least free forwarding option.
and by the way,how about the calendar and notepad ? are you going to make them look the same as the new yahoo mail deos ?
August 8th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
How can I stop emails coming in from the UK stating that I’ve been awarded millons of dollars and need to forward my info back to them is this spam? I have tried to block them but they have so many new address coming in to me. So what should I do or is there any thing I can do?
September 14th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Is it possible to create sub-folders within mail folders? For instance, I have a mail folder labeled “Condo Assn” I would like to sub-categorize that folder with sub-folders such as “Roof Issues” or “Contractor Quotes” or “Meeting Notes”
Call me anal retentive, but the thought of being able to organize in this fashion would give me goosebumps!
September 26th, 2008 at 12:04 am
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