For reading and organising my email I use mutt. In the past I have used mail.app for a while, but it had to much problems for me. Using mutt however I had one little irritation. Saving email to my next and waiting for mailboxes was cumbersome. It takes to much keypresses or hard to remember key short cuts.

The simple solution I came up with was to make symbolic links in my Maildir. I.e. ln -s .next .n, which allows me to type the command s=n in mutt instead of s=next.

So what do I gain by that: With approximately 3 emails a day to file this way, I save 1095 keypresses per year. With an average life expectation of around 75 and an current age of 29 I save 50370 keypresses in my life. Being able to type with around 200 keypresses per minute I save 4 hour, 11 minutes and 51 seconds.

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Why dont you just make a macro like this? Now you only have to press one key instead of 4!macro index N savemessagenextenter Save message in next foldermacro pager N savemessagenextenter Save message in next folder

Well, that does work of course, (though my input filter destroyed your syntax), but than I would run out of shortcuts. Hence that was not a working solution in my situation.