WHATCHAMACALLIT
Years ago, frustrated by DOS Applications that defaulted 'saves' to a sub-directory (now folder) of the application's executable and other files. e.g My Notes on Freud would be 'saved' to c:\wordstar\documents\ntsfreud.ws and the spreadsheet with the supporting data and graphs as c:\supercalc\sheets\ntsfreud.cal.
It was nuts! Akin to having Filing Cabinets labeled Pen, Pencil, Typewriter, Adding Machine, Camera - you get the idea - with each client's data/documents scattered about the 'filing system' according to the tool employed to create it
With the aid of auto-executing macros I was able to re-direct such defaults to any directory/folder and created c:\mydocuments in 1983 or maybe four, but actually named it c:\data and explained to my students (I was teaching 'computers' since the early seventies) that the purpose of 'saving' their document was so they might later retrieve it and that they were no longer to "Save the file" at ll. Rather they were to file it where it might subsequently be retrieved even by their replacement some time down the long and winding roads.
To facilitate the approach I had them go to their office and record the labels on the drawers of the file cabinets in their offices, as well as the name or description of the cabinet should their boss ask "Where did you find this?"
I also printed out sheets of my directory structure (expanded to show all levels) and would describe a particular file challenging them to tell me where they would find it on my 'PC.'
For the life of me I was bereft of the term/s to describe my inorganic taxonomy (?) sufficiently to bring it to the attention of my bosses at IBM when I worked there for a while or Gates, et al as his team was developing 'windows' to compete with Apple et al.
Reading your comments, I thought you might be the one to help me define what I was attempting to create.
And, thus, I am asking "What would you call it?"
When I first saw MyDocuments I thought I'd been robbed I tell you, horn swaggled!
Just kidding. They still don't 'get it!'