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Navica Keys for Karbon

One-key shortcuts for Karbon. Clear, plan, and file Triage emails without the mouse, and start a new email, note, or work item from any page, with small key hints right under Karbon's own buttons.

Chrome extensionAnyone who works through Karbon's Triage inbox

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See how it works

Works in Chrome on Mac, Windows, Linux, and ChromeOS. No account. Nothing collected.

Beside the words “Clear your Karbon inbox without the mouse,” a Triage inbox in Chrome with an email open and small key hints under its toolbar buttons: T under the briefcase, E under Clear, and C under Comment, plus W beside Add to My Week and N beside View 3 new items.

Privacy

It presses Karbon's buttons. That's all it does.

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Triage is where a Karbon day starts: a stream of client emails to clear, plan for the week, or file to the right job. Each one is a few clicks, and on a busy morning those clicks add up to a lot of mouse travel.

Navica Keys turns each of those clicks into a single key. Press E to clear, W to add to My Week, T to file to a timeline, and Karbon moves on to the next email. From any Karbon page, Shift E starts a new email, Shift N a new note, and Shift K a new work item. Small key hints sit right under Karbon’s own buttons, so you learn the keys by using them, and you can turn the hints off once you know them.

Every shortcut presses Karbon’s own button, exactly as a click would. Karbon does the work, nothing is connected or synced on the side, and the extension never reads your email.

How it works

Three steps, no setup

  1. Open Triage in Karbon

    Click an email to open it. Key hints appear under Karbon's buttons.

  2. Press a key

    E clears it, W adds it to My Week, T files it to a timeline. Karbon moves to the next email.

  3. Keep going

    Press ? any time for the full list. Shortcuts never fire while you're typing.

File to a timeline in a few keystrokes

T opens Add to Timeline with the search ready. Type the work item, then press Ctrl Enter to add it, or Esc to cancel.

Alt Shift W and Alt Shift C switch between the Work and Contact tabs without leaving the search box.

The Add to Timeline dialog with Northwind typed in the search, key hints W and C on the Work and Contact tabs and Esc on Cancel.

Every shortcut, one key away

Press ? to see the shortcuts you've turned on, with the keys you chose, plus Karbon's own built-in keys.

A small Shortcuts link in the corner opens the same list, and you can hide it in settings.

The shortcut list open over the Triage inbox, with sections for Triage, creating new items, the Add to Timeline dialog, and Karbon's built-in keys, each key in its own box.

Start something new from anywhere

Shift E opens a new email, Shift N a new note, and Shift K new work, from any page in Karbon, not just Triage.

They never fire while you're typing, so a capital letter in a field stays a capital letter.

Turn on more when you're ready

Optional shortcuts cover the rest of the toolbar: next and previous email (J and K), Reply to All (R), Reply (Shift R), Forward (F), Save to Later (L), Add Reminder (B), and Assign (A).

Each one gets its own key hint, so the toolbar teaches you its keys.

The Triage inbox with optional shortcuts turned on, showing a key hint under every toolbar button, beside a list of keys: J, K, R, Shift R, F, L, B, and A.

Make every key your own

Change any key, turn each shortcut and its hint on or off, choose whether W plans for this week or next week, and reset to the defaults at any time.

The settings page warns you when two shortcuts share a key or a key would take over one of Karbon's. Settings sync across your Chrome profiles.

The Navica Keys settings page, a table of triage shortcuts with each action's key and columns to turn the shortcut and its hint on or off.

Keyboard

The default keys

Change any of them in settings. Keys never fire while you're typing in a field.

Navica Keys default shortcuts
KeysAction
EClear the open email
WAdd to My Week
TAdd to a timeline
CAdd a comment
NView new triage items
?Show every shortcut
ShiftENew email, from any Karbon page
ShiftNNew note, from any Karbon page
ShiftKNew work, from any Karbon page
AltShiftW AltShiftCWork or Contact tab, in Add to Timeline
CtrlEnterAdd, in Add to Timeline

Questions

Good to know

Does it work outside the Triage list?

Yes. Shortcuts work in Triage, Later, Cleared, and Karbon's other email lists, on whichever email is open. Shift E, Shift N, and Shift K work on any Karbon page.

Will it clash with Karbon's own shortcuts?

Not by default. None of the default keys use Karbon's built-in keys, such as Ctrl K or Alt W. If you choose one later, the settings page warns you.

What happens while I'm typing?

Nothing. Shortcuts are ignored while you type in a field, and they pause while a Karbon dialog is open, except the dialog's own keys.

Can I hide the key hints?

Yes. Turn all hints off, or just some of them, in the settings page. You can also switch from Karbon's gray style to high contrast.

Does it need my Karbon login or an API key?

No. It works with the Karbon tab you already have open. There's nothing to connect.

Does it cost anything?

No. It's free, with no account and no upgrade.

Support

Something not working?

Email max@navica.llc with what you pressed and what happened. I read every message.

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