Fileographer
Fileographer is a keyboard-driven file manager and note-taking application for macOS and Linux. It lets you navigate your hard drive by typing a few letters from the name of the file or folder you want to see. It shows you files that are nested inside your folders, so you can filter down to just what you want. It lets you create files by entering a name and hitting enter, and it lets you edit those files right away. Fileographer even lets you batch rename.
Features:
* Navigate your hard drive without needing to use a mouse.
* Use two panels to see two directories at once.
* See file previews, display image files and PDFs, and play media files.
* Create and edit text files.
* Create folders.
* Move, copy, and duplicate files.
* Gather groups of files into a new folder.
* Batch rename files.
* Move files to the trash and delete files.
* Capture notes by pressing F3 in any application.
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Directory Opus
Directory Opus is a complete replacement for Explorer, with far more power and functionality than any other file manager available today. Single or dual pane file display and folder trees. Tabbed interface let you keep multiple folders open and switch quickly between them. Unique Explorer Replacement mode provides a full replacement for Windows Explorer. Quickly filter, sort, group, and search your folders. Color-code your files, and assign status icons, star ratings, tags, and descriptions. View images, documents, and more. Image marking lets you sort your photos quickly and easily. Batch renaming including easy-to-use keyboard macros. View and edit file metadata. Support for FTP and archive formats like Zip, 7Zip, and RAR. Built-in tools including synchronize and duplicate file finder. Calculate folder sizes and print or export folder listings. Queue multiple file copies for improved performance. Fully configurable user interface, colors, fonts, toolbars, keyboard hotkeys, etc.
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Nimble Commander
Dual-pane file manager with classic design. Familiar Mac swiftness, charged for power users. Software developers, system administrators, and IT professionals and enthusiasts. Nimble Commander is built with efficiency in mind to ensure the minimum consumption of system resources. Written mostly in C++, it provides blazing performance and instantaneous user interface response. For instance, handling dozens of windows and tabs is no big deal. Following the strong traditions of orthodox dual-panel file managers, Nimble Commander provides quick keyboard access to file management operations. To save you time, there are keyboard shortcuts for more than a hundred actions. Nimble Commander is designed to be flexible and comfortable for a vast range of uses. Colors, sizes, fonts, presentation types, filename trimming, quick search behavior, external tools, terminal emulator position, hotkeys layout, you can customize all of that.
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Vifm
Vifm is a file manager with a curses interface, which provides a Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt. If you use vi, Vifm gives you complete keyboard control over your files without having to learn a new set of commands. Vim-like user mappings. Vim-like command-line mode with ranges and abbreviations. Vim-like marks and registers. Directory tree comparison. Operation undoing/redoing/backgrounding. FUSE file systems support. Color schemes can also be applied to specific sub-trees. File decorations are customizable according to their type and/or name. Named bookmarks (tags) Less-like preview mode with customizable viewers. Advanced file filtering and renaming capabilities. One or two pane views within tabs. Shell-like and external command-line editing. Table/grid/tree/miller views of files. Built-in integration with GNU Screen and tmux. Multi-block selection. Cross-platform (GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS)
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