From MacWorld....
New documents wherever you are
The standard way of creating a new document in a specific folder is clumsy: you open the app, create a new document, select Save, and then navigate to the folder where you want to store the doc. But when I want to create a new document, the folder I want to store it in is usually already open in the Finder. So I use Document Palette (
New document here | Utilities | Mac Gems | Macworld). With Document Palette running, I can just press a keyboard shortcut, and a list of document types appears on the screen; I choose one, and a new document of that type is created in the current Finder folder. You can customize the list of document types that appear, and you can include document templates. (For people who prefer a more Windows-like approach, NuFile (
Right click = new file | Utilities | Mac Gems | Macworld) lets you create new documents by right-clicking inside a Finder window.)—Dan Frakes