By far, one of the most useful methods of getting around a BlackBerry is through hotkeys. Personally, I’ve never been a big fan of the trackball, so I tend to exploit any means of avoiding it…
This is not intended to be a complete list of BlackBerry shortcuts, just a list of all the ones I’m able to remember and use on a daily basis. Also, these are the shortcuts I use on my Verizon BlackBerry Tour…they should work on most BlackBerry devices, but I’m not entirely positive. If you have some handy shortcuts of your own feel free to add them in the comments!
StudentDocket
- S - New Class (L for Pearl/Flip users)
- T - New Assignment/task
- P - New Project
- D - View Day
- W - View Week
- M - View Month
- A - All Assignments
- F - View assignments for a given class (B for Pearl/Flip users)
- C - Toggle task between Complete and Incomplete
BlackBerry Calendar
- A – Agenda View
- D – Day View
- W – Week View
- M – Month View
- Space – next day/week/month
- T – View Today
BlackBerry Email/SMS/MMS
- R – Reply to current message (great way to avoid opening each text message)
- F – Forward Current Message
- T – Top of screen
- U – Next unread message
- S – Search
- Space – Page Down
- Q – see the name/email address/phone number of any highlighted contact (Really useful!)
BlackBerry Browser
- T – Top of the screen
- B – Bottom of the screen
- G – “Go To” Screen
- R – Refresh
UberTwitter
- R – Reply
- T – Top
- Space – Page Down
- F – Follow
- L – ReTweet
- A – Change Accounts
- S – Search
Google Maps
- I – Zoom In
- O – Zoom Out
- 0 – Go to current location (this one took me forever to find…)
- U,J,K,H – Move around the map
For an insanely long list of Shortcuts nobody could ever remember, head on over to http://forums.crackberry.com/f3/tip-helpful-keyboard-shortcuts-13131/
Hopefully these will help someone else as much as they have me!
