MacOS famously can’t right-click to create a file the way Windows does. To create a Word document, for example, you have to open the Word App and then create a new one. Isn’t that a little troublesome?

However, with the “super right button” after this artifact. You can quickly complete new files, hide/show files, customize folder ICONS, copy paths and many other operations by clicking the right mouse button or pressing the touchpad with two Pointers, which can greatly improve efficiency.

The new file

After the installation of “super right click”, in the access or desktop right-click, you can create new TXT, Word, Excel, PPT, PSD, AI and other types of files;

If the window is filled with files and there is no space to right-click to create a new file, you can do so by clicking on the super right-click icon in the upper right corner.

If the default new file type does not meet your needs, you can also add your own. For example, if you want to add an “Xmind” mind map file type, you can follow the following steps:

  1. Open the “Xmind” App, create a default blank mind map, press “Command-s” to save it, name it “Xmind”, then select the location (this will be the default location for your new Xmind file) and save it.

  1. Open the “Super Right-click” App in Launchpad, and click the “+” mark in the lower left corner of the new file page.

  1. Select the Xmind file you just saved and click “Open”.

  1. The “New File” will now have the Xmind file type. The same goes for adding other file types.

Cut, copy/move files to

This is easy to understand. Select a file, right-click, and cut, copy, or move the file to…

Custom folder ICONS

Select the folder, right click, you can give the folder to set the icon, let your file classification at a glance;

If the default icon does not meet your needs, you can also add your own images in the super right button App, but it should be noted that only PNG format images can be added, JPG format is not supported.

Hide/show files

Private files you don’t want anyone to see? Select the file, right-click and click “Hide File”. If you want to restore the display, right-click in the folder and click “Show Hidden Files”.

Other features

You can also access common directories by super right click, copy the path, enter the terminal;

You can also delete files completely (the equivalent of pressing command-option-delete), convert images directly to ICNS ICONS, and so on. More functions you can install software to study.

Matters needing attention

After installing the super right-click button, you will see the following prompt when you start it for the first time: click “Open System Preferences”;

Then tick the “super right button” and close the window.

If there is no new option in the right click, restart the access. To restart the method, press the three keys of command-option-esc at the same time, select access and click “Restart”.