Documents folder: Do you use it?

Nope, i rarely use the documents folder. Most stuff is saved to folders on my desktop. seeing as most of my stuff has to do with school reports and what-not i have folders setup for each class and each quarter.

Nothing is saved to the documents folder unless i get lazy.

 

I keep my dumped documents in there. 90% of my personal and active stuff is on my desktop though.

 

I know what you mean...

I WANT to love the documents folder, but it unnerves me to find applications writing stuff into it. Makes me feel slightly - I don't know - invaded, defiled.

I guess I want to feel in control of my own space, I don't want random software coming in and rearranging the furniture.

Plus perhaps it reminds me unconsciously of a "My Documents" folder

Still, I use it, and make subfolders in it.

 

Mine is essentially a storehouse for all PDF receipts of on-line purchases, licenses, etc. - instead of printing them, I save them to PDF files. I should just rename the folder "Receipts"....

 

Great minds think alike™.

I use mine for all my documents - oh, and my fonts. I used to have a bad habit fo keeping things on the desktop, but no more.

 

I have the following folders within my docs folder:

finances (downloaded monthly statements, budget on omnioutliner etc)
magazines & ebooks
to-do (a repository for stuff that I need to file. basically an inbox)
university (all my school lecture notes, docs etc)

I too despise the way developers stick stuff in there. So far its Roxio, Microsoft, Sports Interactive and Apple. Drives me crazy. Use the library!

 

I could never use my Desktop for general document storage. All that I have there are: my HD, the local train schedule, and a folder of material that I need to remember to transfer to my wife's computer (i can't wait to get down to just the first two).

The Documents folder holds all my documents, nicely organized in a variety of subfolders. I find that it makes things a bit easier to find and open when I use Word (90% of not personal-enjoyment use is notetaking). I actually never used the my documents folder on my old pc, so for me the Documents folder was a bit of a novelty.

Like everybody else, the non-my creation subfolders torque me. Does anybody know what I can delete w/o destroying my computer?

 

I have a disk image in the Documents folder called "Documents" for all that stuff. It's completely organised with subfolders etc. It's all stored in the one place if I need it on a usb key or whatever.

It's very annoying have apps dump files in there for the sake of it. Ddddiiirrrtyyy apps.

 

I removed the Office, Roxio and Appleworks folders and everything is fine. Nowhere near as bad as on Windows though. The whole "My" directory in Windows is a mess. Absolute mess.

 

I don't like apps dumping stuff straight into ~/Documents but I do use it.

I have folders within Documents for my financial stuff, my shopping PDF receipts, my CV, my writing etc - I don't use Documents itself as a storage space.

 

Yup use it with sub-folders in it.
Give my major folders aliases on the desktop.

::20ROGERSC::

 

I use it, and all the sub folders I created start with a space so they show up at the top of the list.

 

Yeah I use it, but only for labs and projects for school I've typed in Pages.

 

My Documents folder is hideous. My image folders are fairly well organised, but Documents has been a dumping ground from day one. I've had this Mac for a year and a half, and haven't sorted it out yet. It's like the junk cupboard/room in your house that you can't face tidying, so it gets worse, and so you can't face it, and so on and so on.

Ugh.

I'm really tempted to just wipe everything and re-organise it from my back-up drive, but I have no idea when I'll get round to it. Probably not so much of a big job once I get round to it.

 

I keep all my PDF's in it as well as e-books.
Very handy folder.

 

Right now I have lots of importent stuff strewn about in there, but I really need to organize it. When I made the switch to OS X three years ago I hated the Documents folder but it has slowly drawn me in...

BV, I'm curious how Tiger is working for you - I'm thinking about upgrading but have held back so far.

 

I keep all my active stuff on my desktop and stuff I'll rarely look at again in documents. After every semester I copy stuff from my desktop into a new folder in ~/Documents. I'd actually try to sort out my computer, but since I can't physically handle the files and I don't have a 30" monitor that will probably never happen.

 

I have a friend who scans in her bills to PDF as they arrive using OCR - and then stores them in her Documents folder so that she can Spotlight for anything rather than hunting through large drawers of filing.

 

My Internet Downloads folder gets most of the crap. But only the good stuff makes it into my Documents, or Pictures, or Music, or Movies folder.

Things sit in the Downloads folder limbo for a day or two before getting moved. I'm quite big on organization, and then I SpotLight, and it is all so nice.

 

I keep my desktop as clean and uncluttered as possible, so yes, I have all of my documents in <shock!> the Documents folder. I know it's a crazy place to put them, but hey, I'm a crazy bastard.

 

I don't think it's strange, but I do use the Documents folder. It's just convenient for the letters I write and fiction I end up with.