Introduction to the Mac Finder

Click "Finder" in the dock.

You use the favorites section to navigate to your commonly used folders. Feel free to drag anything you want in here for quick access.

For example, here are your downloads.

If you would prefer to see these as icons rather than list, just click icon button here:

Or you can see these as columns.

The finder can automatically sort your files into categories like "kind" or "date created" which can be helpful for, well...finding things.

Click "Kind"