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I'm not sure how everyone is doing this. But I do roughly 20-30 mail searches a day.
But when the search is done and now I want to see the top of my most recent email (for new emails and whatnot). How do I get there?
There's no keyboard shortcut to do this. And if I were to do this manually I have to press the X in the search field. Scroll the email list to the to top by using the scroll bar. It's really cumbersome.
The search bar sticks to the top of the mail items and "bounces" with them when scrolled past the top.
You should be able to press the Home key (Fn + ← left arrow key on a laptop) to go to the top.
Alternatively, if you have a multi touch trackpad, you can use BetterTouchTool to set a gesture for Home and End. I personally think this is the best way, and I set a three fingered swipe down to Home and a three fingered swipe up to End
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I hope someone comes up with something better than this, but…
X-out the search - this awkwardly leaves you in the now empty search box rather than in the mail list.
Select any mail in the list. [Or hit Tab until you get back into the list. Depending on how you have your tabbing set up that could be three presses, or about 10:\ ]
Press Home [or Fn/Left Arrow if you don't have a dedicated Home key]
Select the top mail.
Basically, with this method all you're gaining is the Home key-press to get you back to the top. The rest is still very manual.