I used PCs for years, but I haven't touched personally one for anything but vacation Googling since 2001! For clients, I teach them to save everything initially to their desktops so they can practice the same putting-away habits they've honed with paper. I've found that if they get in the habit of manually filing each digital document, until they understand their own filing system, things work better. It's like putting away everything when you move into a new home. If the movers put it away without you being present, it'll take you longer to feel like it's yours.

And y'know, this also holds true for organizing web bookmarks. So many people either have no bookmarks, or have one long ribbon of unsorted ones, never realizing they can categories what they want for their bookmark bars and bookmark menus. Heck, until recently, I didn't know I could put bookmark folders in my bookmark BAR, essentially giving me built-in drop-downs. I took two hours last week to teach myself how to use RSS, and that little bit of knowledge was a nice by-product of the experience. :-)

Thanks for the input!

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