MenuBar for HEY keyboard shortcuts
The MenuBar for HEY popover answers to the keys HEY uses, so what your fingers already know from HEY works in the menu bar too.
Free and unofficial. Made by Soules Studio LTD (opens in a new tab), and not affiliated with 37signals.
The keys
Open the popover, then use these keys on the selected row. Selecting and opening work on any row. The thread keys act on new threads in your Imbox, and the Screener keys act on a first time sender waiting in the Screener. A bundle row groups one sender's mail and is not a thread. HEY does not move a bundle, so leave l and a alone on a bundle row.
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| j or Down arrow | Selects the next row. |
| k or Up arrow | Selects the previous row. |
| Return or Enter or Space | Opens the selected row in HEY, in your default browser. |
| l | Moves the selected thread to Reply Later. |
| a | Moves the selected thread to Set Aside. |
| e | Marks the selected thread seen, so it stops being new and leaves the list. |
| i | Screens in the selected sender to the Imbox. |
| p | Screens in the selected sender to the Paper Trail. |
| d | Screens in the selected sender to The Feed. |
| Escape | Closes the popover. |
Two more keys belong to the app rather than to HEY, and work while the popover is open:
- Cmd+, opens Settings.
- Cmd+Q quits MenuBar for HEY.
HEY's own letters
Every letter in the table means in the popover what it means in HEY on the web. The popover binds no letter HEY does not have, because a key you learned here and then found missing in HEY would be worse than no key at all. If you already use HEY from the keyboard, there is nothing new to learn.
A letter follows what is printed on your key, so the shortcuts work the same on any keyboard layout, the way they do in HEY. Caps lock makes no difference.
HEY lists its own shortcuts in HEY's keyboard shortcuts help page (opens in a new tab).
Not supported
- Screen out has no key. HEY publishes no shortcut for it, so the popover does not invent one. Use the button on the sender's row instead.
- u, HEY's Mark unseen, does nothing here. Every thread the popover lists is already new, so there is never a row for it to act on.
- r, z, m and HEY's other letters are for actions the popover does not offer, so they do nothing here.
- There is no global key to open the popover. Click its icon in the menu bar.
Last updated . Checked against MenuBar for HEY 0.6.4.