Ok so today began the first day of trying to do real work mouseless. Two problems:
a) At work I use my laptop keyboard. It doesn't have a context menu key. I am sad.
2) The touchpad. I am so muscle-memoried into using the touchpad that I kept catching myself "mousing". At home I'm much more cognizant of mousing because I have to get off the keyboard and physically use the mouse. On the laptop though, I don't even have to move my hands off the home keys to mouse. I have to work on this.
So things from today:
Outlook Shortcuts - Here is a good list from Microsoft I only really needed basic ones like "navigate to inbox". I've been keyboarding new mails and sending them for years.
Visual Studio - I was having issues with being mouseless in Visual Studio, but I think a lot of this is due to the ease-of-touchpad problem. Also for half the day I forgot about R# shortcut for find symbol "CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+N" which will let you type in stuff and navigate to the containing file. That's sex.
Web - Google reader is great mostly for keyboard shortcuts, except subscribing and unsubscribing to feeds. I use a bookmarklet to subscribe to whatever feed is found on the current page, and I haven't yet found a way to not-click it. Unsubscribe doesn't seem to have any way of keyboarding it...I played with different approaches for a while.
MySpace and Facebook are *very* keyboard unfriendly. You can navigate links okay by doing the find in page thing, but when trying to compose and reply to messages in MySpace, you can't (or I couldn't) tab between the page and the edit boxes. Big fail. Facebook, on the other hand, is so graphical with all your stupid applications on the profile page, I just gave up and moused my way through my scrabulous and chess challenges. One more reason to hate facebok.
The upsides - I am really getting a lot more comfortable with R# shortcuts that I never used to use all the time, and I'm barely touching the mouse at all even after one day. I have had to augment my SlickRun config a couple of times to handle edge cases, but I've removed the quick launch bar form my taskbar, and emptied my start menu. I feel productive.