The old version(1.2.3) had such a great design!!! Why would you want to destroy it with these old fashioned drop menus and huge permanent text messages on a transparent layout! Also, Spotlight and The Cooler should be optional!

For the most part Fresh is my "go to" app for things like this. Sure, Spotlight can do a big chunk of what this app does, but The Cooler is what really makes it work.

Pros:
- Does what it says
- The Cooler for quick file and folder access

Cons:
- Fresh Files don't have a filtering mechanism similar to Blasts'
- I don't like the 2 giant green bars going across my screen. I can impede drag-and-drop on a 13" MacBook/MacBook Pro

My Suggestions:
- Make dock icon invisible without third-party apps
- Double-click to open file/folder and single-click (not right/control/command click) pop-up menu for file/folder options
- Redesign the UI for smaller screens, and make it more app-like

This is an awesome app, thanks.

The only thing though is can I use the drag to tag on emails from Mail.app?

You can access two more rows of recent and cooler items by using the arrow keys to select the far right item - then scrolling right once more with the arrow key. Each of the two shelves is really 3 rows long. But we made it so that down arrow takes you to the shelf below - which is why you need to go all the way to the right. I often use this to find a file that is a day or so 'old'. --Tom

I really like this app. I used to use the "Today" search in the Finder sidebar all the time, but it was a PITA to keep customizing it to exclude certain file types (it shows *everything* by default). Fresh does the same thing but better:
• I can activate it with an easy-to-hit hotkey (Control-Space in my case).
• It shows me the 15 most recent items (I'm on a 30-inch monitor - you'll see fewer items on a smaller screen) sorted in order of use.
• It gives me decent-size previews of each item, and I can quick look them.
• I can drag items from Fresh to move them.
• I can easily exclude items and locations from being displayed, so what i am left looking at is only the items I want to see.
• It automatically melts away once I don't need it any more.

But the best part is the Cooler, where I can hold items I want to access later. This feature alone is worth the price of admission. And to top it off, the Cooler will automatically purge the oldest items when it runs out of room, saving me the effort.

There are only a couple of minor things I'd like to see improved:
• A larger font for the tooltip that displays the full file name on mouseover, and an easier way to distinguish the file name from the path.
• An optional colour scheme that isn't so hard on my eyes. :-)