Carl Witthoft said:
I must be missing something here, unless you're a neatnick
.
I'm not anything like a neatnik, but you *are* missing something -
people work *differently*...
Who cares whether a couple folder windows are open when you're working
in Office? They're behind all your document windows, after all.
I don't *want* to have to figure out which Finder window I'm in or hide
Office to get to my projects - that's too many steps and I'd have to
*look*. I just want to CMD-Tab to Finder, type the first two or three
letters of my project or file and CMD-o. Takes less than a second.
Other ways to do that? sure, but none are inherently *better*.
Besides, having a few open folders makes it easy to mouse over them when
selecting a Save folder via Default Folder.
I have no doubt your system works well for you. But I've found that
being dogmatic about how one arranges one's workflow doesn't really work
well, and making blanket pronouncements about how one *should* arrange
one's workspace is silly. I know people who've been using Office for 20
years who still don't use keyboard shortcuts. It's ludicrous to me, but
it's efficient enough for them and trying to change now would *reduce*
their productivity.
Might some other way be more efficient? Of course. I *could* use Default
Folder, but then I'd have had to put up with the bugs and glitches it's
had over the versions that caused me to trash it in the first place.
YMMV.
