How keystroke memory and Outlook screw me.
Category Esc Enter
I use two mail clients, Outlook and Notes. In Notes when I'm done creating an email I hit Esc and then Press Enter and the mail is gone, I never look at the message box that pops up because I've been doing the exact same keystroke sequence for something like 17+ years (probably why I hate Notes 8 and it's shortcut changes so much). 17+ years makes anything a hard habbit to break, sadly I keep doing the same keystroke in Outlook, but in Outlook, Esc, Enter doesn't send the email it saves it to the Drafts folder, so in my head I think I've sent the email but in fact it's sitting in the drafts folder.
Anybody else have keystrokes they use in one app that carry on to them working in other apps that don't do what they expect?
I use two mail clients, Outlook and Notes. In Notes when I'm done creating an email I hit Esc and then Press Enter and the mail is gone, I never look at the message box that pops up because I've been doing the exact same keystroke sequence for something like 17+ years (probably why I hate Notes 8 and it's shortcut changes so much). 17+ years makes anything a hard habbit to break, sadly I keep doing the same keystroke in Outlook, but in Outlook, Esc, Enter doesn't send the email it saves it to the Drafts folder, so in my head I think I've sent the email but in fact it's sitting in the drafts folder.
Anybody else have keystrokes they use in one app that carry on to them working in other apps that don't do what they expect?
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Right double-click to Close! In Notes it's great, but in other apps no go.
It trips me up in other apps all the time
Bob
Posted by Bob Brodsky At 02:15:28 PM On 12/04/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Edson At 04:57:02 PM On 12/04/2008 | - Website - |
Ctl-enter sends email in Outlook, and I always end up doing it in Notes when I get home
Posted by Kitty Elsmore At 06:19:48 PM On 12/04/2008 | - Website - |
Posted by Rupert At 10:48:50 AM On 12/05/2008 | - Website - |