You only really made one comment about what this tool does that you found useful after after suggesting GPSoft go look at the tools video :
So, I looked at the tool... and saw that it seems to require that when an Open/Save dialog is open - you press a hotkey in order to invloke it's ~quick search interface to find a folder quickly, but then ~seemed to automatically insert the folder path you select into the Open/Save dialog. Pressing the hotkey and allowing you to quickly search folders is not a dirty hack, but hooking into the dialog to AUTO-insert the path you selected int the tools interface ~could be.
That's why I said, outside of the actual Open/Save "replacement" aspect of things, there still may be a way to use Opus to help make this sort of thing easier or faster for those interested.
When an Open/Save dialog is open... hitting a hotkey that is defined in Opus as being global / system-wide is totally legit and is not a hack (same as this tool you mentioned so far). From there, I don't know if that tool relies on Windows search index for fast lookups, or works like some other tools where it's limiting folder names being ~searched based on some sort of ~recent list.
That said, my point was that the Windows Search Index is in fact pretty fast...
I created a Stored Query in Opus for "kind:folders" - which Opus then saves as a special type of file collection. I then saved that folder opened as the only tab in a lister, sized it way down to take up a dialog-like amount of screen space, turned off ALL toolbars and then saved that as a lister layout. When loaded by a hotkey, that lister will then show a pretty fast index search of ALL folders on the system within scope of the query search (which can be everything on the system, or certain parent folder paths you know you only work with often to increase speed, etc). We then also have ways in v11 of modifying what mouse-clicks or key presses do based on a number of criteria. For instance, if I save that layout I mentioned as Query-Folders, we can then also write a fairly basic script so that double-clicking on the folder you want does something like:
- copy that full folder path to the clipboard
- actually CLOSE the lister that we opened automatically to view and select the folders
That seems to be the GUTS of what tools like this help users to make shorter work of then BROWSING using the clunky Open/Save dialogs... and the only thing you need to do then is paste the path into the apps Open/Save dialog, which doesn't involve any of the potentially problematic programatic hackery that some of these tools bring into the picture.
Not trying to convince you... just saying that such an approach is easily done in Opus and may be of value to people.
Note: opening the stored query layout is easy... I left out in my description above that you'd want to then hit the "" in order to open the Filterbar so that when you start typing charecters (just like the tool you mentioned) the folders shown in the lister then change to only those that match the filter. Behaviorally the same as that QuickJump (and others) app... but it might be interesting if GPsoft could provide a way to save the Filterbar already opened in the layout as well as have it have default focus (just saves from having to remember to hit "" first - but which I think is till useful for the sake of speed and muscle memory stuff).