Desktops aren’t meant for clutter, but they often end up as a repository for our daily work until piles of icons make it nearly impossible to find anything at all. As insurmountable — or at least time-consuming — as this problem may seem, you can get your desktop under control pretty quickly with the help of these three icons.
Chrome: We’ve mentioned lots of ways to keep your bookmarks in sync across browsers and across computers, but if your bookmarks are older than your choice of browser, it might be time to clean them up, get rid of any duplicates you may have, and get rid of any old, dead links that you may have lurking in an old bookmarks folder from way back. Bookmark Sentry for Chrome does just that.
Sometimes you’ve got a great organisation plan and you’re ready to move on it. Other times, you stare at a desk, a closet or a room, and you feel utterly hopeless. Try helping out someone else with their clutter to get some new perspective and ideas.
House overloaded with clutter? Clean up and make some money as well by throwing a garage sale. But if you’re going to turn a profit, you need to throw the best garage sale you can. Here’s how to do it.
Magazine editor Tyler Brûlé has a simple rule for success. “People need to attend to details. I believe in a tidy ship. No jackets on the backs of chairs.”
As most hobbyist and electronics hackers know, keeping tabs on all the tiny components, pieces and parts inside your toolkit is almost impossible. It’s especially troublesome when you go to start a new project only to realise that one piece you need is already in use elsewhere or lost inside a box. To help solve this, ecDB is a web app organisation tool that helps track your electronic components.
Dear Lifehacker, I love my roommate, except for one thing that’s starting to drive me crazy: the messes he leaves everywhere and the hoards of stuff he’s collected to the point where I feel our house is only filled with clutter. And he doesn’t do anything to help tidy up. How can I make this work?
A “vide poche” (French for “empty pockets”) is something many of you may already have in your homes — it’s essentially an empty bowl or container near the door that you empty your pockets in when you get into the house, or a place you stash your keys, spare change, earbuds and all of your other odds and ends in one place so you can find them quickly on the way back out.
If your desk is a completely unorganised mess, productivity blog Unclutter suggests reorganising it by tackling one zone a day until it’s clean and clear.
The easiest way to create clutter in your home is to say “I might use this one day”. To find out whether you’re creating clutter or being thrifty, weblog Unclutterer recommends treating it like the mate of a sock you recently lost: keep it for a predetermined amount of time, then toss it.
