I've tried this before, and failed. But I think I have it figured out as to why, stuff like the filing cabinet in the closet example above.

waffles

"has a system in place to handle everything"
This has been my answer. I sat down and started an inventory spreadsheet to get a handle on what I did have and part of making that spreadsheet I started making some standards such as everything must have a place and must fix in with my eixtsing system.
For example all my outdoor gear has a backpack in my closet where its stored. So when I wanted to buy a GPS to map our haking or geoencode our pictures I decided that it would be kept in that outdoors backpack so it had to be small enough to fit there. I also didn't want yet another charger so it had to run on AA batteries instead of having a pripritary lithium ion so the existing battery charger for AA's would be used to power it, thats part of how it fits my existing standards. My battery charger sits on the shelf by the outdoors backpack and wneh I get home and empty my pockets all that goes there too so my cell phone and bluetooth charegr are there too. So thats the place where those items are kept.
All tools are in tool boxes or bags, for example my cordless drill and saw are in a rolling box with their chargers, batteries, bits, blades in the top so all that stays uncluttered and in one place.
All my small electronics tools and parts are in a drawer in one of those plastic rolling things in the closet, all the accessories for my laptop like its cd drive go in the next drawer down. Any flash readers and such go in there too. So that is the place for smaller electronic items which are not used every day or accessories or tools for maintaining those items.
I have many more examples like that but the basics are , find/make a place for a certain category of stuff then categorize everything and make it fit in that place or get rid of it.

enine

I value organization and hate clutter as much as anyone, but sometimes I get tired just reading about processes and systems and tricks and everything else that's intended to maximize my efficiency and turn me into an uber-functioning robot. So much time goes into creating and maintaining processes that it seems like sometimes the process becomes the goal. I think people need to relax a little, use basic common sense to avoid clutter and stop trying so hard.

vered

I agree with vered's comment. I'm finding myself getting into the process of allowing clutter during the week and then cleaning up the desk on Friday.
Jed Taylor

Jed Taylor

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bantamweight

My plan for personal organization always seems to vary somewhere between the Collyer Brothers (on a bad day) to Al Gore's desk (on a good day).

Einstein revealed a basic principle of the universe when he said "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk?"

More about creative chaos at In Praise of Piles.

cenoxo