While my colleague CM Smith has written an excellent piece on using Spaces, I’ve tried it before and just haven’t gotten into it. Scrivener is getting that nod right now since I’m working on a book, and any application I’m putting through the paces will end up there during the testing phase as well.

I will also place items on the Dock from time to time that I do need to use for a project so that I get a visual trigger whenever I use my Air. I hide the Dock so it gets out of my way and the things I keep on the Dock are the things I use most often. But doing so would modify them in a way that I’m not terribly comfortable with, so they are staying put. If I could get rid of Finder and LaunchBar, I would. My Dock is kept hidden – and when it does come out to greet me it contains only the following: That said, much of the photos I want are already on my iPad and iPhone to show people quickly and easily. It’s a 320GB portable drive that my wife and I can share between the family machine (re: my old MacBook Pro) and my Air. Again, we use an external drive for this (that also gets backed up to the Drobo) for this. For the times and amount I watch, it’s not something I need to have stored right on my machine. They’re on my iPad and stored on my Drobo as well. And since I use Instacast for my podcasting needs and Rdio for my music needs, I generally have local music stored on my Drobo for archival purposes these days. Even software updates can be done on the devices themselves now. But now with wi-fi syncing and iCloud (sort of), this isn’t something I need to keep on my Air. This was a bit of a problem when you used to have to sync your iDevices directly to your machine. The Air has less than half the storage of my old MacBook Pro, so my goal is always to keep it lean and mean. I don’t keep much media on my MacBook Air. And, include screen shots!”Īlmost one year later, I’m delivering the goods as part of my “How I…” Week. I’ve not heard or read anything on best practices for folder organization. I talked to him a bit about how I did it and told him that I’d write a post about it someday. One of the things that we chatted about after the recording was how we keep our computers organized. He is the founder of Samovar Tea Lounge (based in San Francisco), and occasionally writes over at his weblog, RealRitual. Back when I was doing the Work Awesome podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jesse Jacobs for one of the episodes.

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