The macOS interface is great, I have no doubt. It is a result of years of touch and development, and allows you to use all the phases and functions of the system with ease. However, I am one of those who believe that the Mac menu bar has been destroyed. Especially on big screens.
That is why I always value similar tools xMenu, which allows you for free to add additional menus to shortcuts to whatever you want. You may find it interesting to open frequently used programs or files, so let's take a look at how to find one.
Shortcuts as a custom tool
The first thing is to install xMenu logically, something that can be easily done from the Mac App store whenever you have MacOS 10,10 or later installed. Once installed, the app will appear in the form of a new icon in the program menu bar. In any of these menus you will have direct access to the app settings:
In them you'll see that there are options to have six additional menus: one for applications, one for developer, one for user box, one for document folder, one for customization and finally one more to manage clipboard. We have a desire on Friday, to be able to do it the way we want, so we'll only mark that:
You should see a star icon in the menu bar. Click on it, too click the XMenu option and enter & # 39; Open Folder in Finder & # 39;. A window will open in Finder where all you have to do is drag shortcuts to whatever you want in the menu. They can be applications, they can be folders or they can be files.
To create a shortcut, simply find the corresponding option from the right mouse click menu:
As I said before, it will suffice with Drag all shortcuts made in this folder to a folder opened from XMenu. The name of those shortcuts, which we can change as we want without affecting the name of the real objects, will be the name that will appear in the menu.
The menu can be as long as you want, though the idea is that you use it to access the specific files / folders / programs you want to have. For those who want to do it without hiding the Dock, the drop-down menu and all the apps we can run on XMenu can also be helpful.
