Sparrowtips

Mar 30

The Sparrow 1.1 shortcut cheat sheet.

The Sparrow 1.1 shortcut cheat sheet.

Mar 25

Take advantage of Sparrow’s Multitouch gestures

Take advantage of Sparrow’s Multitouch gestures

Mar 22

Activating the minimal mode: Go into Sparrow’s Preferences > Advanced, and tick the ‘Hide Message preview’ box.

Activating the minimal mode:

Go into Sparrow’s Preferences > Advanced, and tick the ‘Hide Message preview’ box.

Mar 02

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Mar 01

Using the Conversation View

 

To open the Message Panel, simply press ⟶ to open and ⟵ to close it.

No need to remember long shortcut ⇧+⌘+T.

In Sparrow Advanced Preferences, you can customize how Sparrow behaves in a lot of way: Hotkeys allow you to define the shortcut you want to create a new message and to show/hide Sparrow.  My personal hotkeys are ⌥-⌘-↑ to show/hide Sparrow and ⌥-⌘-N to create a new message. This shortcuts work at all time everywhere on your Mac meaning that you can create a new message using your shortcut while browsing the web, writing a Pages document or watching a movie.  Sparrow also supports Gmail Shortcuts. Ticking the box in the Preferences will turn them on. You can find a list of it here. Turning on the ‘Always Reply all’ could also simplify your work flow. If the Quick Reply doesn’t please you. Ticking the box will disable it. Clicking the reply button in the conversation view will always open a new window for you to reply in rather than the quick reply.

In Sparrow Advanced Preferences, you can customize how Sparrow behaves in a lot of way:

Feb 28

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Feb 22

QuickLook on attachments You can preview any attachments by selecting it and pressing ‘Space’.  Sparrow allows you to do this while reading your mail and also while composing it. Attach any file in a new mail, select the attachment and press ‘Space’ to quickly verify this is the document you wanted to send.

QuickLook on attachments

You can preview any attachments by selecting it and pressing ‘Space’. 

Sparrow allows you to do this while reading your mail and also while composing it. Attach any file in a new mail, select the attachment and press ‘Space’ to quickly verify this is the document you wanted to send.

Affecting labels Affecting labels to your mail to keep a clean Inbox is easy. Right-click the mail you want to labelize and select the ‘label’ section. The list of your existing labels will be displayed. Clicking a label in the list will affect it to the mail. Do the same to ‘Archive and Label’ a mail. You can also affect a label with ⌘-L or Archive and Label with ⇧-⌘-L

Affecting labels

Affecting labels to your mail to keep a clean Inbox is easy. Right-click the mail you want to labelize and select the ‘label’ section. The list of your existing labels will be displayed. Clicking a label in the list will affect it to the mail.

Do the same to ‘Archive and Label’ a mail.

You can also affect a label with ⌘-L

or Archive and Label with ⇧-⌘-L

Using the Conversation View To Open the Conversation View, jus click the bottom-right corner icon in Sparrow’s window. The right pane will open allowing you to see your mails as conversations. You can also open/close the Conversation View with ⇧-⌘-T

Using the Conversation View

To Open the Conversation View, jus click the bottom-right corner icon in Sparrow’s window. The right pane will open allowing you to see your mails as conversations.

You can also open/close the Conversation View with ⇧-⌘-T

Reply from the ToolBar Sparrow’s Toolbar allows you to make all kind or reply and to forward mails. To Forward or Reply All, just perform a long click on the Reply icon. A contextual menu will let you ‘Forward’ or ‘Reply All’ the selected mail. To Reply All, you can also ⇧-⌘-R To forward a mail, you can ⇧-⌘-F

Reply from the ToolBar

Sparrow’s Toolbar allows you to make all kind or reply and to forward mails.

To Forward or Reply All, just perform a long click on the Reply icon. A contextual menu will let you ‘Forward’ or ‘Reply All’ the selected mail.

To Reply All, you can also ⇧-⌘-R

To forward a mail, you can ⇧-⌘-F

Reply/Reply All toggle  Sparrow makes it simple to toggle between Reply/Reply All. Right within the compose window, you can change your mind and include other recipients by clicking the icon at the far right of the ‘To’ field. To Reply, you can use the ⌘-R shortcut To Reply All, you can use the ⇧-⌘-R shortcut

Reply/Reply All toggle 

Sparrow makes it simple to toggle between Reply/Reply All. Right within the compose window, you can change your mind and include other recipients by clicking the icon at the far right of the ‘To’ field.

To Reply, you can use the ⌘-R shortcut

To Reply All, you can use the ⇧-⌘-R shortcut

Show/Hide Cc & Bcc fields Click the grey triangle on the left of the ‘To’ field to toggle the Cc/Bcc fields. Sparrow will remember your choice and will keep the fields hidden or shown depending on what you chose.

Show/Hide Cc & Bcc fields

Click the grey triangle on the left of the ‘To’ field to toggle the Cc/Bcc fields. Sparrow will remember your choice and will keep the fields hidden or shown depending on what you chose.

Setting up an alias - Send as… Sparrow lets you send mail from your main mail account with other mail addresses.  To set up an Alias in Sparrow: Go to Preferences and select the Alias tab  Make sure that your alias is certified  Click the ‘+’ button Enter your alias address You can set an alias as the default mail for your main account by clicking the ‘Make default’ button.

Setting up an alias - Send as…

Sparrow lets you send mail from your main mail account with other mail addresses. 

To set up an Alias in Sparrow:

You can set an alias as the default mail for your main account by clicking the ‘Make default’ button.

Creating Labels Open Sparrow’s Preferences via the Sparrow Menu (or ⌘-,) and select the Labels section. Just click the ‘+’ bottom-left corner button and name your new label. You can assign any color you want to your label by clicking the bottom-right corner button. 

Creating Labels

Open Sparrow’s Preferences via the Sparrow Menu (or ⌘-,) and select the Labels section. Just click the ‘+’ bottom-left corner button and name your new label. You can assign any color you want to your label by clicking the bottom-right corner button.