Organize your Google Docs

A very helpful idea is to organize your documents in Google Docs.  It is actually very easy and helps track down work.  I used it when building my website for the classroom.

 I had a plethora of files accumulating to use in my Short Story Unit page I was creating.  I was converting my old files from Word and Open Office and PDF's  to Google docs so they could be inserted easier into my page for classroom use.

In this image (click on image to see full sized and clear image) you can see the folder, in red in the left hand column, "Short Story Unit".  The folders are each of the different stories I teach, which are indented and listed below the title of the folder I created.  Google calls folder "collections".  You can either check the little boxes next to the files you want to put into the folder and then move them, or click on the file and drag it into the folder.

You know files made it successfully into the folder when you see the collection title after the file name, as in this image.

What I attempted to show was that in the collection, "short story unit" I have a folder, "the Lottery", which I opened.  Since "The Lottery is open, its name shows up above in the search bar (follow arrow).  The files associated with this collection then show up in the main pane.  As you can see, I have four files associated with "The Lottery" at the moment.

Use collections, it is very helpful in organizing your files in Google docs!