Windows Powershell: Shortcut for change directory

Question

I just started using Windows Powershell and one major problem I've run into is when I start it, it starts me off in this directory:

C:\Users\Username

However, the directory I usually need to navigate to is in something like:

C:\Users\Username\Dropbox\Websites\2014\Projects\ProjectName

And sometimes it goes much deeper. So you can see how it is a little annoying to navigate each time I start the shell to this directory using ten separate cd commands. I was wondering if there was a way to set up a shortcut or alias for something like:

cd C:\Users\Username\Dropbox\Websites\2014\Projects\ProjectName

Or possibly I could set some sort of shortcut to the directory only so I could do something like:

cd shortcut

And it would cd to the proper directory. Does anyone have any experience with something like this? Is this a dumb thing to do? I'm very new to using any command line so I'm just trying to get used to navigating around files and folders more easily.

Answer 1

There is also another way to do this:

function PP { cd C:\Users\Username\Dropbox\Websites\2014\Projects\ProjectName }

Set-Alias shortcut `PP`

Answer 2

new-psdrive is your friend :

New-PSDrive -Name docs -PSProvider FileSystem -Root "C:\Users\username\Documents"
cd docs: