TextMate's Open Recent
Like I said before, I'm a geek.
I'm a big fan of TextMate. It's my standard text editor when I'm on my Mac, and I miss it when I'm at work using Visual Studio. It's a very unassuming piece of software - I remember wondering what all the fuss was about when I first started out using it.
Then it gets to you, bit by bit. It's thoughtful little features that do it, such as the Recent Items menu.
I structure my Django projects in a fairly standard way, which means that I'm often opening different folders with the same name - they'd just have a different parent. In this case, I've opened up two media directories, one under 'mint' and one under 'fez'. Stupid programs would just show you either 'media' twice, or try to squeeze the whole file path into the menu, performing various textual gymnastics to do so.
TextMate shows you just enough detail to be useful, and no more. A picture speaks a thousand words:
