To save a file to the last folder you have used in Finder

Here is what I mean. For example, usually you save your Safari downloads to ~/Downloads. But today you have found a useful PDF on the web, and you want to save it to ~/Documents/your_project. You have never saved files from Safari to this folder, and therefore you won’t see this folder in “Recent Places” of the Safari’s Save As dialog window (see the screenshot). You can press Shift-Command-G to open Finder’s Go to Folder pop-up window, but what next? The list of folders in this pop-up window doesn’t have to include the ~/Documents/your_project folder.

The workaround I use is to drag the folder from Finder to Save As window using mouse/trackpad. But maybe there is a more convenient way?

It is not clear what you mean by “the last folder you have used in Finder” as it seems you want to save to an arbitrary folder, regardless of when it was last used.

A third party applicaiotn to consider for this is Default Folder X. You will need to review the feature set to see if it satisfies your use case.

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