Need to type out the path to a file? Need to know where it lives? Sure, you could just think it through, but that takes… umm thought: “Okay… let’s see, users/scohen/library/… shoot, is that case sensitive?” Yeah, good luck with that. A better, easier, lazier thing to do is to simply drag and drop the file into a TextEdit window and copy the results.

1. Open TextEdit (make sure you’re in plain text mode… Command+Shift+T toggles back and forth from plain text to rich text). A blank window should appear.
2. Go find the file whose path you are too lazy to type out.
3. Drag and drop it into the TextEdit window. TextEdit will inscribe the full path for you.
4. Copy and paste.

Here comes some blurry video!

See, isn’t that so much easier than thinking? Don’t you think you should give me ten dollars?