If I look here in Tags I should now see Quick Access listed since I just created it. Now this has the Quick Access tag applied. I'm going to select it and do Command i to get info and I'm going to add a tag. You can take a file like this and apply a tag to it one of many ways. If you expand that you'll see the most frequently used tags. Now in addition to Favorites in the Sidebar here you should also see something for Tags. You don't need to go to the special interface for modifying the Toolbar. To get rid of it, by-the-way, all you need to do is use Command and drag down. But if you just have one file you want to access like this you can easily put it there, then click on it and it will open up that file. You don't have quite as much room as you'll have here in the Sidebar where it is easy to scroll. So I'm going to drop it right there and you can see it adds that file there. But if you hold the Command key down then you'll see you could add it inbetween other icons. So you drag this up to the top and nothing will really happen. You can also place a file in the Toolbar at the top of the Finder. Now if I want to open it up any time I just go to the Dock and click on it once there. So if I place it there you could see I get the file right there. The right side, near the Trash Can, can contain Files and Folders. The way to do that is simply drag it to the Dock but not to the left side. I can also put an Alias like this in the Dock. But I can access it at any time by double clicking right here to open up the file. The file itself is still tucked away nicely in the folder where it belongs. If I release and drop it here I'll see the icon for the file and I'll see that little curved arrow there as well. If you drag this over to the Desktop like that but hold down the Option AND the Command keys both you could see this little curved arrow here next to the file name. But that actually puts it in Desktop folder. I try to keep a clean Desktop here and you could certainly move the document itself to the Desktop. Now another thing you can do is you can add a Desktop Alias. If I go, say, to my Home folder it's still going to be there and one click will open the file. Now it will always be there wherever I am. But if I hold the Command key down I can add it to the list of Favorites. So I'm going to drag this file here and all I can do right away is simply have it go into one of these folders. You can actually drag a file to Favorites but the trick is you need to hold the Command key down. If it doesn't show anything under here you may need to expand it like that. ![]() The top item in the Sidebar in the Finder should be Favorites. Now if you do decide that a file is really important and you're going to access it all the time you could add it right here to this Sidebar. So you can use it for this file right now or any other file that happens to become important at any time. The other thing is you can use this for any file. ![]() Just go right ahead and use Command Space, type the name, and get right to it. One is you didn't have to setup anything in advance. So while this isn't the quickest way to access a file it does have two advantages over all the other methods. As soon as it's the top result and you see it selected there you can simply press Return and it will open up that file. This will make it a little quicker to select. But you do have to type enough so that it's the top result. I don't need to type the entire file name to actually see it appear here. You can activate Spotlight very quickly by using Command Space. But if it's buried so deep down how do you get to it quickly? It's important to have it in its proper place. But where it really belongs is inside of a folder, like inside this Projects Folder, and inside of a subfolder there. ![]() So you may be tempted to put it somewhere where you can access it really easily, maybe on the Desktop, maybe at the top level of your Documents folder. Now I want to get to that file often and when I do I want to get to it quickly. In that I've got Important Document.pages. Say here in my Documents folder under Projects I have another folder called Project Alpha. ![]() There are several ways to quickly get to that file when you need to. So let's say you've got a file on your Mac that's particularly important and you access it often. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Let me show you 10 ways that you can quickly access an important file on your Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with.
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