August 24th, 2011

Using Mac Mail.app with Keyboard Maestro

I recently switched from Postbox to Mail.app, in Lion, to manage my work email. I can’t say exactly why, except perhaps that I’m always trying new software in hopes of finding an improvement.

Overall, Mail.app has felt like an improvement. But one feature I missed sorely was the ability to hit a few keys and move a message into another folder. I file everything, and having to click and drag a message every time to do that was getting quickly irritating.

To solve this problem, I loaded up the relatively newly installed Keyboard Maestro and made a few macros like this:

It’s simple and efficient, and now gives Mail.app the one feature it was lacking for me.

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