Hello Jason. File organization was for me the most difficult part of switching to the Mac, and now I have no problem with it. First, you may want to experiment with your view. In Windows, I used list view exclusively. However, on the Mac, I have column view to be easier. If you have computer's view set to list view, you may be gettiong lost as where you are and not know it.
I do what you are talking about all the time. Get on top of the main folder. Then press command M and go right arrow until you hear file. Then go down until you hear the choice for creating a new folder. Choose that option with VO spacebar. Then type in your file name and enter. Go to the file you want to copy or move. After getting on top of it, press command C. To move you files there, you may need to interact with the browser with VO shift down arrow, or sometimes I open the folder with VO space to make sure my file is going to the right place. The other thing I do, which may be a habit on my part, is save files from TextEdit or Pages always to the desktop and then move them. It helps me keep track of files I still need to work on. The reason I decided I liked column view better than list view is that on the Mac it seems to me that list view mixes the folder names together with the file names. This drove me crazy. Column view doesn't do that; with it, you can read folder names and press right arrow to get into the files under that folder. I was used to pressing enter in Windows to get into files under a folder. On the Mac, you can rename files that way. Now that I'm used to it and broken myself of the habit of pressing enter whenever I want to enter a foler or file, I like the option of renaming files by pressing enter. The other thing I like about the renaming reature is that when you press enter on a file or folder name, you can use usual editing functions to change the file name. I do this a lot. I hope all this makes sense. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Apr 8, 2012, at 9:49 AM, jason lefevers <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello , I am still new to the mac and can't figure out how to sort my > documents into specific forlders. So to start I am using a mac book pro with > lion. I can create a document fine, I have also created a folder on my > desktop where I want to put client notes. The folder on my desktop is called > unseen touch. I can put documents in this folder just find also . The thing > that I want to do and that i can't do is, In the main folder unseen touch I > would like to make many different folders for each of my clients and in each > of those folders put individual documents for that days notes. what I have > done so far is like I said is create the main folder and when I open it > there is a folder that I named jason as well as a document called jason > lefevers soap note. how do I get the soap note doc into the jason folder? I > have tryed copying the doc and then opening the jason folder then pasting the > doc but it just tells me that its already there and asks if I want to replace > it , so I say yes but Its not showing up in the jason folder , nothing shows > up when I open the jason folder. If anyone could walk me threw this process I > would be very happy. Thank you very much. Jason > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
