I mostly use spotlight for navigation via keyboard commands. Cmd + space bar gets spotlight and then type what you're looking for. It's not perfect but it's on

I mostly use spotlight for navigation via keyboard commands. Cmd + space bar gets spotlight and then type what you're looking for. It's not perfect but it's on every mac and it really minimized the need for a mouse. The only other mod is to show the full path in the finder window title: defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES # then restart finder osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to quit'