User Tip: Send messages to folders with a single keystroke

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