“I have way too many files for All My Files to be useful to me,” he says. One feature he doesn’t use is OS X’s All My Files feature. When it comes time for John to find his files again, he uses “the Finder, Open dialog boxes, and the Terminal…about equally.” “I tend to use more nesting for things I create myself than for things I get from elsewhere,” he says.

Macworld Senior Contributor, podcaster, and verbose OS X reviewer John Siracusa organizes his files “by category, from general to specific.” Mostly. Macworld senior contributor, John Siracusa The point of organizing your files is to make it easy to find them again. I set out to discover how experts tackle both tasks. There are numerous approaches to both organizing and then locating files. Macworld Senior Editor Dan Frakes literally shuddered as I described how I store all my articles for Macworld in a single folder, with no other taxonomy in place. That said, a stack of papers in my home office’s To Be Filed box could make a grown man cry I’m afraid the files on my Mac are organized no better. My own Mac stores oodles files of all types-my photos, my music, and thousands of text and Word documents. How do I organize my files? This single folder full of 742 unsorted Macworld articles gives you a clue.Ĭomputers are the ultimate file cabinets.