OSX lacks the ability to create a new text file at the current finder location by default. In order to do this we use an applescript created by Russell Beattie which we save in the user's script folder and then drag and drop it to the Finder menu bar.

tell application "Finder"
        try
                set fileName to "untitled"
                set fileExt to ".txt"
                set thisFolder to the target of the front window as alias
                tell application "System Events"
                        set fileList to get the name of every disk item of thisFolder
                end tell
                set newFile to fileName & fileExt
                set x to 1
                repeat
                        if newFile is in fileList then
                                set newFile to fileName & x & fileExt
                                set x to x + 1
                        else
                                exit repeat
                        end if
                end repeat
 
                make new file at thisFolder with properties {name:newFile, file type:"TEXT", creator type:"ttxt"}
        on error errMsg
                display dialog (errMsg)
        end try
end tell