How do you make a specific document easliy accessible? [Solved]

[andymx]

I would like to have a specific Writer document easily accessible for me to open at any time. Is there a way to do this by pinning it to the Panel or by any other means?

EDIT: I mark this as "Solved" but the answers are in the thread.

[Charlie Brown]

I set a hotkey and just press it. The command is the path, say: featherpad /path/to/thatfile.txt

[Eadwine Rose]

Yep. I have my fish slapping stuff in a key that way.

[CharlesV]

ha! I would have thought you would have AutoKey setup for something like 'fishslap ' ... hahaha

[CharlesV]

@andymx if your only doing a document or two, then you can create a shortcut on the desktop or panel. OR, you can just put an entry into your favorites on the whisker menu.

And I have setup on my Cario-Dock a special folder where I put "Things I am working on now" ( Current ) and then symlink to them in this folder. This gives me hover ability and Cario-Dock shows all docs in this folder and one click I can open anyone. Then when I am no longer in need of this link, I just delete the sumlink.

I use several folders like this: Data, Clients & Current ... extremely useful.

It looks like this (This is my Data folder link to svn data )

[towwire]

Or you can do it this way.
viewtopic.php?p=730841#p730841

If you need any help on this method, just ask.

[clampett]

I did similar to what you asked. I opened the application, pinned it to the dock, edited the launcher on the dock to open the document I wanted most often.
The only problem I have now is, if I open another document, it opens the one on the dock also, so I have 2 documents open.
Not a big issue as I just close the default one, but it surprised me the first time.

[figueroa]

Using the Terminal, create a symbolic link to the document on your Desktop:

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cd ~/Desktop
ln -s ~/Documents/nameoffile.odt NameOfFile

That second "NameOfFile" is what you will see on your desktop.

[andymx]

Thank you everyone for your suggestions. I didn't think there would be so many alternative solutions! I thought about creating a Launcher for the document and tried to do so, but it was rather difficult for me. I installed LibreOffice from a flatpak and the path to it is /usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=libreoffice --file-forwarding org.libreoffice.LibreOffice --writer @@u %U @@. Too many characters and dashes to make sense to me! This I think kind of rules out a few of the other suggestions too.
At this stage I think the simplest solution would be to create a symbolic link to the document on my Desktop.

EDIT: I discovered that if I right click on the document in Thunar there is an option to send a link to the Desktop.

EDIT 2: Apologies for the continuous edits, but it may help some other user to read this. I thought about installing Cairo dock, but I think it may be too resource heavy and I decided to install Plank instead. It's simpler and less fancy, but I think it will cover the basics for me. One thing that I like is that now I can unpin Firefox and Thunar from the Panel where they appear at the top left of my screen and they are relatively far for me to point the mouse and open either of them. I pinned them to the Plank dock instead. As regards the document under discussion, I simply dragged it to the Plank dock and pinned it there. I notice that I can also pin entire folders to the dock too, which is useful for me as I have a folder of things that I'm currently reading.

[ghunter]

Hi

rather than a keyboard combination, you can also have it autolaunch if you need it each boot.

for icewm...I have ~/.icewm/startup with contents

#!/bin/sh

pcmanfm --desktop &
/usr/local/bin/nl &
volumeicon &
nm-applet &
apulse /usr/bin/firefox &

The last line would be similar to featherpad /path2/file &