When it comes to file browsers, my favorite setup is a side-by-side mode(source and destination). Something like this:

Midnight Commander

Unfortunately, Finder doesn’t have this option and although there are apps that offer this feature(Path Finder, TotalFinder, Xtrafinder), the way they’re designed doesn’t work for me.

One good thing that came from testing these apps is realizing that two Finder windows next to each other seemed to be exactly what I was looking for all along.

Better Finder

The problem is, Finder doesn’t do a great job at remembering window states. So a window manager(Divvy, Moom, Spectacle) would come in handy. Unless you really want to fine tune margins and window sizes. For that and more a little AppleScript will do the trick:

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Front-End Front – A crowd-curated news website focused on front-end development
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