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summercomfort) wrote2009-12-05 12:14 am
summercomfort) wrote2009-12-05 12:14 am
I have a Desktop?
I used to use the Desktop a lot. I'd always press the key so that I can access files on my Desktop. Then somehow I stopped using it. I just realized recently that the only time I see my Desktop wallpaper is when I'm restarting the computer, which is once every few months. So... what happened?
1) Spotlight. Nowadays when I want to access something, 70% of the time I'd just type it into Spotlight. The rest of the time I use Finder. And I'm someone who doesn't use a Spotlight hotkey (well, Spotlight comes as Cmd-Space, which I use for switching input languages, so I made Spotlight Opt-Space, but I still like to click on the icon*)
2) Finder sorted by "Last Modified" -- so much easier to find stuff, because I'm generally either looking for something I edited in the last week or so, or something from a year ago when I last taught this.
3) Stickies. I started using Stickies as just generic text files, and now I find myself accessing stickies way more often than the Desktop. If I hide all my other programs, what I see are the stickies, which are generally more information-dense than the desktop files.
4) Download Statusbar. I used to go to the Desktop to open something that I just downloaded. Nowadays, I just double-click it on the Download Statusbar.
So now I don't really use my desktop for anything, because everything is accessible by the Dock or by Spotlight. Instead, nowadays it serves a "Temp" folder for downloads and stuff that I don't really want to bother filing.... And I access it by using Finder. ^^;;
On the other hand, I still use the Desktop on my PC laptop, because it doesn't have Spotlight and Stickies.
* My most often used Mac hotkey remains Cmd-H
1) Spotlight. Nowadays when I want to access something, 70% of the time I'd just type it into Spotlight. The rest of the time I use Finder. And I'm someone who doesn't use a Spotlight hotkey (well, Spotlight comes as Cmd-Space, which I use for switching input languages, so I made Spotlight Opt-Space, but I still like to click on the icon*)
2) Finder sorted by "Last Modified" -- so much easier to find stuff, because I'm generally either looking for something I edited in the last week or so, or something from a year ago when I last taught this.
3) Stickies. I started using Stickies as just generic text files, and now I find myself accessing stickies way more often than the Desktop. If I hide all my other programs, what I see are the stickies, which are generally more information-dense than the desktop files.
4) Download Statusbar. I used to go to the Desktop to open something that I just downloaded. Nowadays, I just double-click it on the Download Statusbar.
So now I don't really use my desktop for anything, because everything is accessible by the Dock or by Spotlight. Instead, nowadays it serves a "Temp" folder for downloads and stuff that I don't really want to bother filing.... And I access it by using Finder. ^^;;
On the other hand, I still use the Desktop on my PC laptop, because it doesn't have Spotlight and Stickies.
* My most often used Mac hotkey remains Cmd-H