Hi, thanks for your suggestions. I think I figured it out for the most part I will have to play around with colum view and see which I like better. Jason On Apr 8, 2012, at 7:29 PM, Gigi wrote:
> 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 <jasonlefevers.mass...@gmail.com> > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
