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I think I'll be far from the truth if I say that the desktop of every person is a reflection of his character and habits. I often help my friends and relatives with the problems on their computers, and the first thing that catches your eye when you sit down for their Mac - it's your desktop littered with various files and photos. Almost all attributed this to the fact that the storage of documents and files on the desktop makes it easy to search for them in the future. It is fundamentally wrong, because with time your desktop become a cesspool, and to find in it something to be very, very difficult.
The best way to get rid of such problems - it's just a stop to store files on the desktop. In this article I will show you how to keep your desktop perfectly clean, and how to make sure that over time, it does not clutter up again.
Store your files correctly
In fact, the file system is OS X already contains your home directory subfolders set to store various files, and all you have to do - it is timely to move them there. There are folders for base types such as files
Documentation, Movies, Music and Images. You can also see here a folder Programs and cloud storage folder (mine is Dropbox).
Just open your home folder in the Finder (or use the side panel) and drag all the files from the desktop to the appropriate folder: images and photos in Images, PDF and text files - Documentation, Video - in Movies. If you are unsure about any of the files - put them in Documentation. It must be your universal default folder to store files, but in any case, not the desktop.
Organizing your files
Now that we have our razgrebli desktop, folder dump turned Documentation. To conveniently organize the files under document, You need to create multiple subfolders. This is easily done by right-clicking or by clicking the gear icon in the Finder toolbar:
Come up with some criteria for division of your files, for example, I created a folder Job and private. Adding the specific files in the appropriate directories, you can organize and quickly find them when you need them, but more on that later.
Quickly find the necessary files
After all these manipulations with folders and subfolders, you may ask yourself the question, how now quickly find the files? Easy! In OS X Spotlight search have a great tool that can be used for a second to find any file on your Mac.
Spotlight can cause in any application, simply press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Space (default). The Search field opens in the upper right corner, and as soon as you start typing, the system will immediately predolzhit options results. Typically, the desired result will be displayed for 2-3 characters of the filename. To open a file, simply click on it or use the arrow keys and press enter.
Save screenshots in a separate folder
Take a screenshot in OS X is very easy - just click Shift + Cmd + 3 and it will be immediately saved on your desktop. This is both good and bad. Well, because fast and simple, and bad because so your desktop is fast turning into the trash, if you frequently use screenshots (like me).
Fortunately, this problem has an elegant solution. With the terminal via a special command can be set to save screenshots of any convenient location for you, eg Documentation. Open Terminal (you can try to find it through Spolight) and copy it here this code:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~ / Documents
In order to apply the changes you need to introduce another small team:
killall SystemUIServer
Now all the screenshots you made will be neatly folded into a folder DocumentationAnd your desktop will be spotlessly clean.
Most likely, my recommendations were not news to you, however, many users even if they have heard of them, do not always adhere to them. And yes, I'm not saying that the desktop should never be any files. But do not forget that the desktop is no accident called the workers, that is, after you finished work, all that is on the desktop should be expanded in the appropriate places in the folder.
I - for the procedure, because everything begins with it. I hope you agree with me, dear readers? ;)
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