The default Open and Save dialogs included by default in macOS don’t have too many customization options. Default Folder X is a small utility that can help you personalize the entire experience by adding new locations, Spotlight tags, comments, and many more options.

Access favorite folders from the status bar and create your own folders lists
The Default Folder X status bar menu offers you the possibility to navigate to your default, favorite, and recent folders. At the same time, the menu also allows you to view all opened Finder windows and bring any of them forward.

The Default Folder X preferences can be adjusted via a Preferences Pane that will be added to your Systems Preferences. Here you can add specific directories to be used by default with certain applications. Furthermore, you can create your own Favorite Folders list.

Open and Save toolbar
If Default Folder X is running, each time you want to save or open a file in an macOS native  utility, the application will add a toolbar that provides all these options in a more easily accessible manner.

To navigate between the different menus, simply put your mouse on top of them. However, you can also make use of the keyboard shortcuts assigned by default to frequently used functions.

Integrated Spotlight and QuickLook options
To make sure that you can always find your files as fast as possible, Default Folder X enables you to add Spotlight keywords, tags, comments, or labels within the Save dialog.

On the other hand, when you are opening files, Default Folder X allows you to preview the documents in a thumbnail and even zoom to full size.

Intuitive solution for customizing the default Save and Open dialog
Default Folder X is proposing simple solutions for personalizing your experience when opening or saving files. The app is focused on efficiency and will certainly improve your workflow.

What's New:

Version 6.2.2:

• Icons of folders are tinted in Default Folder X's menus when a color tag has been assigned to them.
• The Bloom file manager is now supported. Its windows are recognized by Finder-click, and you can open items from Default Folder X's menus in Bloom.
• Holding down the Option key while selecting a folder from a Default Folder X menu will reverse the sense of the "open in a new window / open in the frontmost window" setting.
• When you switch between Folder Sets in the settings, Default Folder X will suggest adding a Folder Sets menu to the main menu if you haven't done so.
• Default Folder X's toolbar will now appear reliably when when using File > Move To > Other or clicking in a document's title bar and selecting Where > Other.
• Fixed a bug that could cause Default Folder X to mistakenly re-select a file after switching to a new folder in a file dialog.
• Corrected selection and window activation issues in Open and Save dialogs on Tahoe.
• Turned off Tahoe's distracting animations when Default Folder X's Finder-click shadows appear and disappear.
• Fixed an issue where the Quick Search window would get stuck on screen after an incomplete drag-and-drop operation.
• Keyboard shortcuts in file dialogs that move focus to the filename or file list correctly remove focus from the Tags and Comments fields.
• Contextual menu items are enabled correctly for Quick Search results when searching within a folder.
• Previews of files work correctly in menus popped up from Finder window toolbars.
• The Compress command now preserves symbolic links.

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