Chris Henderson <henders254@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there any way to quickly add a file's location rather than typing
> the whole file://path/to/location. The files are mostly freemind or
> libreoffice calc/ word files.
>
> If the file or the directory is not there, it can also be created
> from within org easily.
>
> Thanks

Are these links to files? You can use `org-insert-link' with a prefix
argument, to get the usual find-file interface, and a link inserted once
you've found it.