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Order is one of the most important things in everyone’s life. Artists often like to speak about their artistic disorder, justifying themselves in this way, but I don’t believe them. I guess it’s all about laziness. My workplace is always cleaned up and this for sure helps me in my work. But about it we’ll speak later, in another post. Today we will stop at the order on people’s computers. Last 3 days I spent on cleaning up my Mac and I decided to write a little bit about it. As you can see, I’m not perfect and I can have disorders too.

Folders.

It’s up to you what structure of foldering you use, but I hope there’s no mess in it. A good structure helps you to keep all your files in a way that you will never waste your time on searching them, when you badly need ones. These are some examples of how I do it (pretty simple, yeah).

Desktop.

For me desktop is a place where I keep and save all the current files I work with. It doesn’t take too much time to find them when I want to upload them or send to someone. It’s realy easy and comfortable. But what I started doing is that every evening, before going to bed, I introduce order in the files on my desktop. Files that I don’t need are deleted, others are put in folders they belong to. In this way, my desktop is ready to be used for the next day.
The problem is that many people forget to keep desktop in order for some reasons and in some days they have a mess there. In a week or two it can become so huge, that it will take too much time to introduce order in it. You can spend 5 minutes on it every evening and save many hours in the future.

Bookmarks.

Everyday I bookmark for about 2-3 pages. It is about 700-1000 bookmarks in a year and you can imagine what I see when I open my bookmark panel in Firefox. From time to time I use them to read a good article I found to be interesting or to visit some portfolios for inspiration. But again, it took me time to find something in that mess, because there was no structure. I decided to introduce order in it too and only now I realize what an important tool bookmarks is. Now I know where are the links I need, what I should visit everyday, what to read when I have some spare time and etc. To organize bookmarks in Firefox go to Bookmarks – Organize/Manage Bookmarks – Bookmarks Menu.
Now my bookmark menu looks like that:

If you have invented some useful things about keeping order on your computer, don’t forget to share it with us! It may help people and I think it is great, isn’t it?

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