Finder

Some simple tricks

1. Press Space quick look folders or files.
2. Right click Finder window's title to see the current work path.
3. Drag and drop a file or folder into the terminal window, get the file's location path.
4. Copy a file or folder to a text input zone, get the file's location path.
5. In the icon zone of File Info Panel( call it by press Command + I on a file or folder), you can change the file's icon to the picture which is pasted into the clipboard, by press Command + V. Hit Delete key to recovery the icon.

View

• Finder Menubar > View > Customize Toolbar... > Show Icon only
• In Home Directory > Finder Menubar > View > Show View options > Show Library Folder

Sidebar

• Make new folder 'Workspace' in the home directory && drag and drop it into sidebar.
• Give 'Workspace' folder a nice icon such as 'smartFolderIcon.icns' (Location:/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/).

• Rename && pre-define some tag for future use. Such as:

    Color   | Tagname
    ------- | -------
    red     | Project
    orange  | Github
    yellow  | Note
    green   | Config
    blue    | Script
    purple  | Collection
  

Preferences

• Finder Menubar > Finder > Preferences... > General > New Finder windows show: > $HOME
• Finder Menubar > Finder > Preferences... > General > Check Open folders in tabs instead of new windows
• Finder Menubar > Finder > Preferences... > Sidebar > Add $HOME && remove All My Files
• Finder Menubar > Finder > Preferences... > Advanced > When performing a search > Search the Current Folder