How do I remove the iCloud-first behavior in Mountain Lion?

In Mountain Lion, I have iCloud activated for Documents. I'd like document-saved-in-the-cloud to be an option, but not the default, as in "if I choose iCloud from the dropdown, save in iCloud, else save in my current folder".

Is it possible?

If it is not, I'll disable the "Documents and Data" switch in System Preferences > iCloud, but it raises the question: how can I list all information currently stored in iCloud, and save them to some real-world folder?

Solution 1:

To change the default to local just write in a terminal:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false 

To change back to iCloud first, type:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool true