I love using my Mac for its great useability, stability, style and terrific technology. However, I find myself in the Finder at times wishing things worked a little differently than they do. Specifically, the Finder, the navigation box, and applications all seem to have a different idea where the action is at.
For example, I’m working in the Finder. I navigate to a nested folder, find a file and double-click it. The correct application launches and the document opens. Now, perhaps I want to open a related document in the same folder or create and save a doc there. You would think the application’s File/Open navigation box would put me in that same folder.
Wrong. More often than not, it puts me soemwhere else in the file hierarchy, like in the Documents folder, or in the last folder it opened from. Multiply this behavior by two or more applications, and the Finder and pretty soon you are using a large proportion of your Mac time traversing folder hierarchies mumbling under your breath and wishing for an upgrade for your abacus.
Okay, so there’s a solution. Default Folder X by St. Clair Software is a terrific piece of software which puts standard navigation boxes to shame. The least of the things it can do is set up default folders for specific applications, show favorite folders in the nav box, let you traverse folder hierarchies right in the nav box using nested menus and do drag and drop of folders into the nav box. Great stuff. Todd sez, check it out.
