2Īfter you added a bunch of folders and files you can start to organize them: What you want to do is only to put an alias to your folders into FinderPop since there is no reason your folders should live hidden away in the library folder of your system – the can stay were they belong. Basically this folder can be populated with all the data you want to have accessible in the contextual menu. To get you started open the preference pane, choose the “Items” tab and click on Show "FinderPop Items" folder. If you want more structure and more folders you can tuck them away under on entry by unchecking Inline FinderPop Items into main Contextual Menu under Appearance: I have a rather minimalistic setup and only use three folders which I display “inline” in my contextual menu: To give you a good overview I have made a 3 minute screencast: 1 a toolbox where you can organize for AppleScripts and shell scripts.a menu with recently used files and applications.a helper to make an alias of files or move and copy them.a quick way to access files and folders.To sum it up, FinderPop has several use cases, it can function as… The application comes rather simplistic as a preference pane, but with a plethora of options – some of them are right Appearance or Options tab, others are hidden.
If you invest a little bit of time and customize the contextual menu, all relevant locations of your Mac are just one click away. Plus, you can run scripts on files with FinderPop or simply execute them.
You can access your whole file system via the contextual menu, open folders, move documents and more. What is FinderPopįinderPop is a contextual menu extension and a versatile little gem for tinkerers. Let’s cut the chase and see what it can do for you. What it comes down to is this: the best tool to get the job done quickly is the tool at hand. No matter how hard I try to use my Mac only with the keyboard, numerous times a day I end up with my palm resting on the mouse: be it switching to a folder with a click on the sidebar, opening up another finder window, selecting and copying certain files from A to B. In addition there is still one place where I find myself using the mouse more often than in any other application: it’s when dealing with files in the Finder. That’s when I use my mouse most of the times. Well, today I got something for you: FinderPop.Īlthough being an avid keyboarder user, I often find myself in a consuming mode. I’m fully aware that there are a lot of users out there who are more comfortable with keeping there hand on the mouse. What you’ve seen so far in this blog is for the most part speeding up workflows with the help of keyboard shortcuts. The pure speed of pressing a hot key makes the keyboard superior to using a mouse. It is a fact that keyboard shortcuts are the most efficient way to do all kind of things on a computer. FinderPop – more productivity for mouse users