Mail.app - keyboard shortcuts to move mail and jump to folder I'm coming to Mail.app with a background using both Outlook (on the PC) and GMail. In every mail client I've used, there are easy keyboard shortcuts to do these:


jump to any folder I want, just by typing a substring of it in an easy to launch dialogue
move currently selected message(s) with a similar dialogue


In Gmail, for example, which has labels, I can easily move and archive something ("l" to label it, then "e" to archive it), and I can easily jump to any label ("g" then "l"). In Outlook I hit ctrl-Y and then type a folder to jump; Ctrl-Shift-V to move things.

I'm happy with Lion so far, but do I really have to spend all this time dragging messages around to folders with the trackpad and clicking folders when I want to look in them? I've never been slower with a mail client.

I'm aware from some Googling that I can assign dedicated keyboard shortcuts to every single folder on a case-by-case basis (for moving not jumping), but that seems like a lot of effort, hard to organize (I want to type the folder I want, not memorize 30 different keyboard shortcuts) and not very flexible.

Am I missing an undocumented feature here?
To do this, you need to display the Favorites Bar, which you can enable by going to Mail » View » Show Favorites Bar.

You can add any folder to this bar, which you can then easily switch to with Command1, Command2, etc.

CtrlCommand1 moves the currently selected email(s) to the respective folder.