Your day-to-day use of M-Files will mainly involve using M-Files Desktop for browsing views in which documents and other objects have been grouped according to the desired criteria, such as a project or a customer, based on the metadata contained in the objects.
For example, all documents for which the Project metadata has been specified can be grouped by project. The documents and other objects related to the same project will then be displayed in the project's virtual directory. For more information on configuring views and grouping levels, refer to New View.