Organization of the wrong understanding OSX and presentation files?

I'm a former developer/project manager who comes to Mac OSX after 15 years with Linux and 10 years of Windows, and I find myself confused in how file names are presented under OSX. The documents seems to provide a list of all the documents independently rental; i.e. their location is not provided. There are tags that allow a file to be found quickly, but the hierarchy folder, subfolder... file doesn't seem to be easily configured or maintained.  Now, I believe that system developers who designed and built the operating system, which, under the covers, works great as Linux, have an intention here to leave the structure of the files for different applications, or renounce the Organization of hierarchical tags for files or I missed something quite fundamental (the latter more likely possibility).

Does anyone know how better to organize files and folders? My counter top is becomes quite cluttered with files, alias of folders and files that I would normally be organize in folders and project areas. I probably could understand it, but I think that I'm not the first to ask the question.

Thanks for your time

The short answer is to keep all your documents in the 'Documents' folder in your Home Directory, i.e.

~/Documents

You will probably want to create subfolders for specific projects, as you always have. There are also a few folders with names like 'Photos' and 'Music' for obvious purposes.

I have my office as a temporary area and try to ensure that there is that more nothing at the end of the day. (Many workplaces as this rule for the offices of the real world, which is where I got the habit.)

You are right, Apple wants to get rid of the traditional tree-structure file system for users. There are compelling arguments for this security because it facilitates the sand-boxing-based application. But it is a daunting task because many people have 'project-based' work and keep everything about each project in a folder.

Among other things, Apple attempted to replace the traditional file system with 'Tags', which nobody do not know I love him. Very few people have obsession for tags files constantly and I have, on the one hand, don't trust Apple to not abandon them at some point in the future if I rarely use them.

Attempt of another, much more successful, is "Spotlight", who, on a good day, can work magically. Unfortunately, it's a little weird and does not work for all types of files.

So, I still organize my files into a tree-like hierarchy supplemented by alias. Spotlight is a nice bonus. Maybe one day I'll take like tags, but not today.

C.

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