Finder Toolbar Items
Did you know that you can add applications to your Finder toolbar? This comes in as a very handy shortcut because you can add context aware action scripts that do common stuff for you. Today I’m sharing 3 of them that help me through my days.
- OpenInGitX - This opens GitX with the currently opened folder. (Also make sure to check out brotherbard’s experimental GitX fork)
- OpenInTextMate – As it says, it opens the currently selected files (or if non selected the currently opened folders) in TextMate.
- OpenTerminalHere – This is the most useful. It opens Terminal.app with the current folder.
You can download them here. It’s a good idea to extract them into your applications folder like so:
To add them to your toolbar simple drag them there. That’s how my toolbar looks:![]()
The scripts/applications are based on this post but have been modified slightly. Let me know if you like’em

Emmanuel Paraskakis 14:32 on 7. August 2010 Permalink
Just what I was looking for – Thanks!
Kim Thostrup 23:40 on 11. January 2011 Permalink
Perfect, thanks.
Miro 17:50 on 12. May 2011 Permalink
Hello,
thank you for the great scripts, I found a little bug in the OpenGitX here script, when you try to apply it to the folder with a spaces in the name, so I fixed it by changing this line to:
do shell script “screen -dmS git-gui-droplet bash -c \”cd ” & listOfAliases & “; /usr/local/bin/gitx\”"
Hope this will help lots of people