Among the things that confuddle switchers from Windows is the inability to easily create a new file in the folder of your choice. For Windows users, this can be done via a contextual menu; but Mac users have to actually launch an application and then save the file in the folder they want.
Fortunately, for switchers and Mac users who’d like to take advantage of this functionality, there’s a solution in the form of Cold Pizza Software’s Document Palette. This donationware app lets you create documents in any folders with just a few keystrokes. Hitting a hot key summons a palette from which you can choose what type of document you’d like to create, either by hitting a hot key or by arrowing through the options. The defaults are plain text, rich text, and HTML, but you can easily add your own document types as well.
I’m not sure how much use I’d get out of Document Palette, since I don’t find myself spending a lot of time in the Finder these days, other than through the windows of the Open and Save dialog boxes, but I’m sure there are plenty who will find Document Palette’s functionality indispensable.
[via Lifehacker]
I was a Windows user for many years and I never understood why anyone would want to go to the trouble of creating a blank file in the Explorer and then opening it rather than simply using the application that creates the file to save a new file in your desired location. Far more I wondered why no one made a keyboard shortcut for the most common file management function that I did - creating a new folder. Bless you Finder for at least giving me that much (* kisses Cmd+Shift+n *).