![]() This menu (which is part of the first toolbar you install) gives you great control over which files you select. There's a yummy piece of chocolate in shiny wrapping paper at every corner. I hope you're excited, because learning about Opus is like an Easter egg hunt. One neat feature of the Opus path bars is these "ghost paths": when you move up from a folder, the path bar shows a faint trace ("ghost") of the previous folder's name at the end of the path, letting you return there with one click. In the picture above, at the end of the path, notice the "dearopus" folder in light gray? It is a "ghost path". What's left in the Select and Tools menus are features that I don't use all that much. Now everything fits logically in these two menus and in the pull-down menus of the relevant buttons. For how my brain works, that's as many abstract boxes as I need to handle. The second thing I'd like you to notice is that this interface only has two named menus: "Select" and "Tools". By shifting the focus, source becomes destination and vice-versa. ![]() After you install my toolbars, you will be able to use Shift + Spacebar to toggle the focus ("shift the space") between the left and right (or top and bottom) listers. If you scroll up to the first picture, you'll see the two displays side by side. The top bar on that side of the display will become green, while the one on the left will become orange. If you click on a folder on the right side, it will become the source. The Source has the green bar, the Destination has the Orange bar. Learning about Opus is like an Easter egg hunt. The idea is that there is a "Source" folder and a "Destination" folder. That's how I use it most of the time because it makes it easy to copy and move files. ![]() Opus can work with a single file tree like Windows Explorer, or with two file trees. The first thing I'd like you to notice is the green bar at the top of the file display. Note that the Home ("Happy Place") button won't be functional unless you also set it up. If you'd like to follow along with my toolbars, skip forward to install the icons and the toolbars, then press your browser's back button. Installing the toolbars is fast work and you don't lose your configuration, since a couple of clicks will let you show or hide the old toolbars at any moment. You will set your own colors (or leave the default untouched), so if you don't like the colors I chose, please don't focus on them.Ī reader suggested to me that for some people, following this tour could be easier if you already have the toolbars running so you're able to play with the buttons. ![]() So that we can see everything better, I split a screenshot of the interface into two halves: left and right. (Please don't focus on the colors as you will choose your own.) You can later refer to the keyboard shortcuts page for a beautifully organized list of shortcuts.įor easy navigation, here are some jumping points to the features on the page:įirst, here is a "faraway" picture of the menus The menus have been reorganized in a logical way.Īt this stage, please do not worry about remembering keyboard shortcuts. In the Dear Opus interface, it's not just that the icons have changed. You may already know the standard Opus interface. Standard Directory Opus interface, but throughĪn optimized interface that's easy to set up,
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