Steve Troughton-SmithHere's some 25-year-old Finder arcana for you:
If you hold the command key, you can drag and drop files, apps, applets etc into Finder's toolbar for one click access
If you wanted to run a Shortcut from a Finder toolbar item, though, I think you would have to first use Automator or AppleScript to call the shortcut from the commandline, and save that as an applet
(Because of course nobody has touched this feature since the stone age)
Gabriel N@stroughtonsmith longtime Mac user here: thank you for this tip. I didnβt know it!
Sean Heber@stroughtonsmith holy crap I had no idea that was a thing.
Chris Silverman π»@stroughtonsmith I thought I knew every Finder trick by this point, and I had no idea this existed. I'm amazed.
It does look like there's a non-AppleScript/Automator way to run shortcuts, though:
- link to a shortcut using its URL scheme, shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=whatever
- save the link as a webloc/inetloc file
- then drag that file to the toolbar the way you did.
You can even pass parameters to the shortcut that way.
Michael Hanson@csilverman @stroughtonsmith Ah, URL handlers. Driving trucks through the wires in the wall since System 7.5.
Benjamin@csilverman @stroughtonsmith Question: does the shortcuts app opens when you execute the webloc file from finder?
I am asking you this because this could be a way to open a shortcuts url scheme on iPadOS without opening the Shortcuts app
@ben_rearden @stroughtonsmith yeah, Shortcuts opens and then the shortcut automatically runs.
Shortcuts doesn't have to be *already* open for this to work, but as far as I can tell, it does have to be *running* for this to work (i.e. the Shortcuts app automatically launches when you open the webloc)
I'm referring to how things work on macOS, though. Haven't tested this on iPadOS yet.
tilo π±@stroughtonsmith Ha! Take that, Alan Dye.
Thomas P. Moonis@stroughtonsmith is this really what theyβve done to Finder in the new macOS? This is my first time seeing it and Iβm shocked. :(
Nate Vack π΄
Jasper Lai@stroughtonsmith One-click access, yes, but even more useful imo is dropping files onto it to open with that app! Usually a shorter distance than to a dock icon.
(My most common: Drop a PDF on PDF Squeezer or drop a folder on VSC.)
Kyle@stroughtonsmith wow that would be been helpful to know for the last ten years of using Macs
Peter van Broekhoven@stroughtonsmith I used to put BBEdit in there so I could just drag files onto the icon to open them.
Missiongiraffe (Old Account)@stroughtonsmith π€― Thanks for this!
Elosha@stroughtonsmith Ah yes, thats an old NeXTstep FileViewer feature, from times before Apple took over, so the feature is nearly 40 years old π
Mutesplash@elosha @stroughtonsmith The Shelf!
Georg TuparevI loved the Shelf of NextStep 3.1-beta. One could drop on it any NSObject stuff, like colour probes, text snippets, etc. In addition, the objects were accessible by Menu ->Services. Really cool.
Dorian@stroughtonsmith put Terminal there, drop any folder on the icon and it will open from that folder π
Fabien@stroughtonsmith You mean in the content space at the top of the window that's visually indistinguishable from the rest of the window?
#bringBackToolbars
#bringBackToolbars
Alexander Allori (πΈπππ π£πππ»)@stroughtonsmith -- Oh my. That translucent (liquid glass) toolbar in Finder is tragically ruined. It's a window with a toolbar. Why does it have to look like anything else? It makes no sense for the content to scroll to the edge beneath floating blobs.