[pkamb]

macOS Quick Actions (formerly called Services) are great, but I've always found them very cumbersome to use due to being relegated to the submenu. And having no icons, and a severe lack of customization and control over their order.

I recently released an indie Mac app to bring your Applications and Scripts to the top of the Finder right-click menu, customized exactly how you like.

https://servicestation.menu/

It's on the Mac App Store and uses the modern Finder Extension API, so safe to install and no Finder haxies.

[miles]

One of the major features Service Station advertises is "Open Terminal by right-clicking the Finder!", but isn't this functionality already available in macOS via System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services > checking "New Terminal at Folder" under "Files and Folders"?

A feature that might make Service Station even more useful would be adding "New Text File" and "Rich Text Document" options, similar to the app "New File Menu"[0].

This is the second time today[1] I've seen a closed source project hosted at GitHub[2]; I had mistakenly assumed GitHub was for open source projects (like SourceForge).

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/new-file-menu/id1064959555?mt=...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23020258

[2] https://github.com/knurling/ServiceStation/

[pkamb]

"New Terminal at Folder" does work if you right-click a folder... but NOT if you right-click the background of a Folder you already have open. That's the primary way I want to open Terminal.

But more importantly it's the UX difference between these two images:

https://imgur.com/a/pt3yQ2q

You can definitely already launch applications and scripts in macOS via "Open With" or the "Services" submenus.

Service Station moves them to the top of your right-click menu, gives them icons, and lets you completely customize the menu including targeting menus to show for only very specific selected file types.

[miles]

> But more importantly it's the UX difference between these two images: https://imgur.com/a/pt3yQ2q

Thanks for explaining the difference. I have so few services enabled that “New Terminal at Folder” is in the top level of my context menu[0], hence my misunderstanding.

[0] https://imgur.com/ZrHVSPA

[saagarjha]

Service Station pulls services out of the submenu and directly into the top level context menu, using a Finder extension.

[miles]

Ah - thank you for explaining that. I have so few services enabled that “New Terminal at Folder” is in the top level of my context menu.

[pkamb]

Built in "New File" functionality is definitely on the to-do list, and a very popular request from Windows users.

Running a support/issues website on GitHub without hosting the code is perhaps slightly weird, but it has been working well for me. GitHub does not mandate any licensing requirement.