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A bit of a ramble so bear with me.
First of all, I should note that I'm a university teacher. I'm a Pages and Numbers user mostly. I have Word and Excel, and use them for documents I MUST share, but in general, I use Pages and Numbers and turn most things into PDFs if they're not just for my consumption. I only started with a Mac in 2015 February 2015, so, not new but newish.
Recently, there have been times I've wanted certain documents from home, and of course, if I forget to put them on the iPad, they're not there. I do use iCloud for many documents for work, but not everything, of course; in general, when I notice I need it, I upload it, otherwise, I don't, which is of course the problem.
Now, looking at Documents in the Cloud, and how it separates things by app in iCloud, I wonder how much a hassle it is to change one's folder habits to fit the new paradigm (for me new, anyway)? What I mean is, like many old Windows users, I stuck everything on a topic in a folder dedicated to that topic. So, if I had a bunch of files about a class I was teaching (PDFs, Pages docs, Excel charts, whatever). They'd all be in one folder.
A little bit now, I'm finding myself not doing that. For example, I now seem to keep all sort of picture files in the Pictures folder, and not in the separate folders they could be. Videos or movies I use for my classes now stay in their own folder, and don't migrate to the class folders like they used to.
Documents is where I haven't had this same drift. All my grading Excel or Numbers files are in the same folder as my class syllabi and some of the PDFs I use.
So, A bunch of questions:
1. Does Documents in the Cloud work in the way that I leave my documents where they are in my Mac, but they appear as an inglorious blob of documents on the iPad? Or do they come with folders of their own under Pages in iCloud (and thus the same on the iPad)?
2. If not, then, I imagine, to make things fit, you would need to separate your documents (Pages, Numbers, PDFs for Preview) into separate folders, and then upload them that way into iCloud under their respective apps? So, all my Pages files of, say, a particular class would be in one folder, and for another class, in another folder, for example?
3. Has anybody changed your workflow to fit the new iCloud paradigm for Documents in the Cloud as I described above? How does it work, not putting everything into one folder for each "topic", but instead, splitting them by type?
That's long, but that's the gist of it. Of course, I wouldn't use this for everything; I've no intention of buying my iCloud space, but for Pages and Numbers documents, it'd be really nice, sometimes, to just have them available on my iPad to work on, and have them sync up on iCloud, and be able to open my Mac later and keep working on it. But how to organize it visually? How to make sure I don't miss stuff?
Thoughts?
First of all, I should note that I'm a university teacher. I'm a Pages and Numbers user mostly. I have Word and Excel, and use them for documents I MUST share, but in general, I use Pages and Numbers and turn most things into PDFs if they're not just for my consumption. I only started with a Mac in 2015 February 2015, so, not new but newish.
Recently, there have been times I've wanted certain documents from home, and of course, if I forget to put them on the iPad, they're not there. I do use iCloud for many documents for work, but not everything, of course; in general, when I notice I need it, I upload it, otherwise, I don't, which is of course the problem.
Now, looking at Documents in the Cloud, and how it separates things by app in iCloud, I wonder how much a hassle it is to change one's folder habits to fit the new paradigm (for me new, anyway)? What I mean is, like many old Windows users, I stuck everything on a topic in a folder dedicated to that topic. So, if I had a bunch of files about a class I was teaching (PDFs, Pages docs, Excel charts, whatever). They'd all be in one folder.
A little bit now, I'm finding myself not doing that. For example, I now seem to keep all sort of picture files in the Pictures folder, and not in the separate folders they could be. Videos or movies I use for my classes now stay in their own folder, and don't migrate to the class folders like they used to.
Documents is where I haven't had this same drift. All my grading Excel or Numbers files are in the same folder as my class syllabi and some of the PDFs I use.
So, A bunch of questions:
1. Does Documents in the Cloud work in the way that I leave my documents where they are in my Mac, but they appear as an inglorious blob of documents on the iPad? Or do they come with folders of their own under Pages in iCloud (and thus the same on the iPad)?
2. If not, then, I imagine, to make things fit, you would need to separate your documents (Pages, Numbers, PDFs for Preview) into separate folders, and then upload them that way into iCloud under their respective apps? So, all my Pages files of, say, a particular class would be in one folder, and for another class, in another folder, for example?
3. Has anybody changed your workflow to fit the new iCloud paradigm for Documents in the Cloud as I described above? How does it work, not putting everything into one folder for each "topic", but instead, splitting them by type?
That's long, but that's the gist of it. Of course, I wouldn't use this for everything; I've no intention of buying my iCloud space, but for Pages and Numbers documents, it'd be really nice, sometimes, to just have them available on my iPad to work on, and have them sync up on iCloud, and be able to open my Mac later and keep working on it. But how to organize it visually? How to make sure I don't miss stuff?
Thoughts?
