Pop up a folder/tag navigation menu anywhere

[judgeFire]

Hey all

I built myself a small app to quickly pop up a menu of favorite folders, tags and more right at the pointer location. I just wasn't happy with the Finder/Dock/Spotlight or the more advanced tools like Alfred etc., they all felt like having to do work to actually get to my stuff. I like the way it turned out, so I put it on the App Store.

See https://foldigger.com for details. It even has a Fnotch™.

 

[tulon]

This is a genuinely useful idea, hunting through nested folders one Finder window at a time is such a specific annoyance once you actually notice it. Curious how you're handling menu placement across a multi-monitor setup, does it always anchor to the display under the pointer, and are the tags reading from Finder's actual tagging API or something you're storing separately?

 

[judgeFire]

The menu always follows the pointer, and tries to place the first item under the pointer, so you can just hit enter to launch it. For example the 'Apps' app can be useful to have there at the top. Sadly, Finder windows can't easily be relocated to the pointer location without all kinds of 'let Foldigger control your computer' entitlements; that would be great in a multi-monitor situation. Now the window opens where it typically would, so it can be many screens away. I'm a spatial finder traditionalist anyway, so that'll remain like that for now.

On Tahoe, FinderTagDict/FavoriteTagNames seemed to have fallen unto some hard times and NSWorkspace.fileLabels/fileLabelColors didn't reflect the new folder colors+icons scheme correctly either, so getting tags to work required a scanning approach. Essentially, we run a NSMetadataQuery that looks for things with tags in the user defined scope and list what we found. If a tag exists, but is not being used, it won't be found. I'm about to check the latest developments in Golden Gate now that we are well into the beta season, maybe that's been improved.