default saving of a new text to Desktop, not Documents??

[dana.polan]

I use my mac primarily for text editing and always like to have the
text I'm writing immediately accessible and visible on my desktop. Is
there a way when I first do a Save command and name the document, I
can have it default-save it to the desktop and not to Documents?
Currently, when I open Save, it indicates that its preferred place for
any text is in Documents and I have to manually pull down the window
and indicate Desktop as where I want it. It's a minor extra step but
I'd still love to eliminate it if possible.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

In Word | Preference | File Locations, set the Documents setting to the
Desktop.

By the way, Cmd-D in the File | Open, File | Save dialogs will jump you
to the desktop. (Unfortuately, if you get used to this command, you may
start accidentally duplicating files because that's what cmd-D does when
you are in the Finder.)