Get to any folder and paste any file without touching the mouse

Command+Shift+G opens a Finder window at the folder you typed. Go skips the window. You pick the file in the panel and it is on your clipboard.

Go also keeps a live list while you type, and previews whatever is under the cursor: a folder shows what is inside, a file shows its first page.

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   Start typing a path

   Begin with ~/Documents/ or just start from your home folder.

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   Press the right arrow

   It goes into the folder under the cursor.

3. 3

   Press the left arrow

   It comes back out and selects the folder you just left, so you never lose your place.

4. 4

   Press Return

   The file is copied. Paste it into a chat, a mail or an upload box. Command+Return shows it in Finder instead.

• Paste a path with backslash-escaped spaces, quotes or a file:// prefix and Go understands it.
• Type without accents: ~/Documents/vlu/he finds ~/Documents/VLU/Hệ thống.
• Type half a name and the list narrows to what matches.

A folder with 5,000 items lists in about 20 milliseconds, measured on the maker's MacBook Pro.

The panel opens on the desktop you are already on. It does not switch Spaces, so it works over a full-screen app too.