Quick Bar

Your Secret Weapon for Fast Message Triage

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Quick Bar for Fast Message Triage

Postbox's Quick Bar is like Spotlight search in macOS, but for mail actions. In the main window, the Quick Bar can be used for common actions such as:

  • Add Topic (keyboard shortcut: t)
  • Quick Move (keyboard shortcut: v)
  • Quick Switch to a different folder (keyboard shortcut: g)
  • Quick Copy (keyboard shortcut: c)
  • Assign Gmail Label (keyboard shortcut: l)
  • Quick Post (keyboard shortcut: q)
Quick Bar for Compose Actions

In the Compose window, the Quick Bar lets you quickly add a signature, a canned response, clip or a topic (tag) during message composition.

To Use the Quick Bar for a Signature, Response or Topic

  1. When you’re writing a message in the Compose window, type command-L (macOS) or ctrl-L (Windows) — the Quick Bar dialog opens.
  2. Start typing the name of the signature, response or topic you want — matching items appear as you type. To make it easy to get your hands on the thing you want, Postbox tells you whether each item is a signature, response, topic, or URL. This lets you use the same name for different things, which can be handy as a way of keeping track of related items.
  3. If what you want isn’t already selected, select it now with your mouse, or use your up/down arrow keys.
  4. Hit enter on your keyboard to insert the selected signature or response or tag the message with the selected topic.

To Use the Quick Bar for Inserting a URL

  1. When you’re writing a message in the Compose window, type command-L (macOS) or ctrl-L (Windows) — the Quick Bar dialog opens.
  2. Postbox can locate a URL in your Sent folder in a few different ways. You can start typing:
    •   part of the URL, such as the domain name, for example.
    •   the name of the person to whom you’ve previously sent the URL.
    •   text from a message that also contained the URL.
  3. Once you see the URL you want, select it now with your mouse, or using your up/down arrow keys.
  4. Hit enter on your keyboard to insert the selected URL.