Greetings, I'm getting a new macbook air. And want to reconfigure how the desktop is organized, how it looks. Right now it's a friggen mess. I have a lot of projects, AND I'm a visual person, and I need to SEE everything. So, I would like to have a way to organize my desktop VISUALLY around my projects: folders, apps, etc. Any suggestions for software or general advice would be very appreciated!
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Cluttered Desktop, help!
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Well, just organize everything in folders and sub-folders from general to specific. If you're working on music projects, for example, then don't have every music project on the desktop. Have one folder one the desktop named "Music Projects", then one folder for each individual project as subfolders, then various aspects of each of those projects as subfolders of those subfolders, etc.
Not sure how else to do it.
Also, if it were I, I wouldn't try to organize everything on the desktop in place. I'd first just move every file and folder currently on the desktop to one temporary folder. Then start creating your folder/subfolder structure on the desktop and then move files one at a time to their proper places.
I would also avoid having apps on the desktop. Just keep them in the /Applications folder.
Not sure how else to do it.
Also, if it were I, I wouldn't try to organize everything on the desktop in place. I'd first just move every file and folder currently on the desktop to one temporary folder. Then start creating your folder/subfolder structure on the desktop and then move files one at a time to their proper places.
I would also avoid having apps on the desktop. Just keep them in the /Applications folder.
To each their own... but I keep my desktop pretty clean all of the time... I use STACKS (right-click on the desktop and then click "Use Stacks") for some work-in-progress stuff, and a couple of folders for ongoing stuff... no apps ever.
You can also make sure your browser saves downloads to the ~\Downloads folder instead of desktop. (That may be the default now but it used to create a mess.)
Configure the screen capture feature to save images to a folder like ~\Pictures\ScreenCaptures. so they don’t pile up on your desktop, too.