FolderGlance 06/20/12

FolderGlance turbocharges folder management. Efficiency increases and anxiety decreases – at a glance.

Watching INCEPTION_FOLDER, the :60 summation of Inception as told through folder management, is an uneasy journey down the carpal tunnel.

My palms get sweaty and my throat gets dry, remembering all the organization-challenged projects I’ve been brought into as a freelance video editor.

Clearly Daniel Stødle, the Norwegian developer of FolderGlance can relate.  This folder navigation tool for Mac OS X Finder really extends its functionality.

FolderGlance installs as a preference pane and enables you to browse folder content from the Finder’s context menu.

According to Stødle:

FolderGlance allows you to control-click or right-click on folders to see and open their contents, as well as examine the contents of sub-folders down an unlimited number of levels.

Being able to control-click and then just hover to navigate through an infinite stair-step of folders would be cool enough.  But while browsing your hierarchy, you can open files, reveal them, or move/copy the current selection to the folder you browse to.

 

Yup.  That floating HUD hovering next to IMG_4417 is a preview of that image.  But this app does much more, including scripting supporting that allows you to:

• customize your context menu with your own menu hierarchies.
• write your own custom actions to apply to the selection or folders you browse to.
• do even more scripting with the help of the FolderGlance Scripting Guide (PDF link).

Check out the screencast for a tour of FolderGlance and the rest of Stødle’s apps at Yellow Lemon Software.