Neu is a simple application intended to give the Finder a "Create Document…" menu that allows you to right-click in any folder and make a new file of a given type.
It copies items from a "templates" folder in your library, so you can customise it to make new text files, images, source files, or anything else that you want.
See
http://www.elegantchaos.com/neu
for a full description of Neu.
Known Problems
The current version of Neu is pre-release, beta quality software. As such, it has some known issues, which will be addressed in future releases.
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If you launch Neu manually by clicking on the icon, it doesn't always come to the front properly (a work around is to switch to another application then back again)
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The Neu
web pages
still need some work.
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The installation/setup process is too complicated.
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Sometimes you have to log out and in again before the services show up
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Right clicking in the empty space in a Finder window (as opposed to on a file or folder in a Finder window) does nothing - I would expect it to bring up the contextual menu for the folder that the window represents, but apparently not. This makes it a bit clumsy to select the destination for your new file. You have to either select the parent of the folder that you want to use as the destination, or you have to select a file in the destination folder. This is somewhat counter-intuitive, but it mimics the behaviour of the "New Folder" command in the Finder.
Credits
Neu is © 2010 Sam Deane, Elegant Chaos. All Rights Reserved.
With thanks to
Matt Gemmell
for his template engine, preferences and other example code, and
Andy Matuschak
for the Sparkle framework.