Desktop Centric Philosophy
The Desktop is the most powerful Folder and tool on your Mac. All of your future Ninja-OSX experience will revolve around the Desktop and the principles in this lesson.
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Main Points:
- The desktop is you primary workspace – the most important “folder” on your Mac.
- Filter everything through the desktop. It’s sort of like your traffic control place.
- Keep it clean. 3-5 permanent items maximum.
- Hot corners to see your Desktop is essential to this philosophy.
- Make the downloads folder now your Desktop. Change the directory from Chrome, Safari, Skype, and everything else. This is true desktop centricism.
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Training Information
Action Tips: Clean your desktop. Appreciate your desktop. Start sorting and saving everything from there. Check out the notes below the video to start taking action.
2 Comments
Michele
December 31, 2015Hi,
I totally agree with the use of drives such as Dropbox, etc.. to backup the data on the cloud.
Regarding your proposal to use the desktop as the “inbox” folder, it seems to me that this same function is offered by the “download” folder. At least this is my understanding.
What would be the advantage to use Desktop folder instead?
Thanks in advance for your answer.
Michele
Tharyn
February 6, 2016I like the Desktop because it’s visual and I can move things into “areas” to sort out later. No other folder allows this kind of drag and drop and move around functionality. However, the downloads folder could serve the same purpose for you as long as you remember to check it and clean it out. This is another reason the desktop is useful, because you SEE it, and it forces you to (hopefully) keep it tidy. -Tharyn
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