Google-drive – Make ‘All Items’ the default location in Google Docs

I think you are misunderstanding how the Home view works.

The Home view displays all of your files and documents. Because of this, the only thing you can do is hide items from the home view.

For clarification, the All Items view displays *all of your files including those that you have hidden from the Home view.

Both views exclude files or folders that are in the bin.

See this Google Documents Help article for further information.

• Go to https://www.google.com/dashboard/
• Select "Edit personal information"
• Change the "Nickname" field to what you want to appear in Google Docs
• Click "Save"

Note: it will take some time for the change to propagate. For me it took about 10 minutes, your mileage may vary.

Note2: I have tested this carefully, and this worked for me at the time this was written. However later on Google has made changes to Google Docs transitioning it to Google Drive. After this, the following anonymous comment has been received: "Google Account and Google Docs are independent of each other. This change has no effect." I'm suspecting that the author of the comment means Google Drive here, not Google Docs, and that the method above may no longer work.