Jonathan Davies

This evening, the internet is pretty much down here at school, I can still read my RSS feeds but frankly browsing the web is hopeless. So I have taken to the task of working my way through my entire file system of documents and folders and giving them all a spring clean.

Some of the worst spots to go through was my “school” folders where I had literally bunged in some random file names and places after after being in a rush to leave (as you can see on the left, this was my Biology folder). Another area of particular area of messiness is my Pictures folder, where I have bunged in a load of random drawings that I do in Photoshop and think “well I better keep them, as I might need them one day“.

This is the single most persistent problem I have. I think I’m going to need something that I save but 95% of the time I never open up the file again.

So here is a suggestion. Go through everything you have sitting around, from apps, to those songs you never listen to and think: “Do I really need these?” and delete them or “Maybe I could archive these on my external drive”.

Of course this is just one half of the problem, the next is finding things. I’m not one for spotlight, I very rarely use it and I prefer being able to go through my file system. And I manage it well enough that I can get to most things with fairly good speed.

Here are a couple of examples:

Macintosh HD >> Documents >> School >> English >> Coursework >> Shakespeare

Macintosh HD >> Pictures >> Design >> WSTL Invitation Design >> Invite Design

Of course it doesn’t hurt to name all your files with appropriate titles to help you find them. Once you go through everything and organize it appropriately, I think you’ll find your productivity increases and you’ll be a happier computer user for it.

Go try it out now!

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