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My coworker told me my desktop gave her anxiety - so I changed one thing
She walked past my station during shift change and said 'how can you find anything with 87 icons covering that wallpaper?' I thought she was joking but then I noticed I was spending 5 minutes every morning just hunting for the file I needed. So I grouped everything into 5 folders by category and set a rule to clean up new downloads every Sunday night. Has anyone else had someone call them out like that and actually had it help?
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johnson.river11d ago
87 icons covering that wallpaper" sounds about right for my old work computer. I had a coworker once tell me my desk looked like a bomb went off, so I cleared everything off the surface and ended up losing my favorite pen for three weeks.
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olivermason11d ago
Right, and that's the other side of it - you overcorrect and lose stuff because you went too far. The trick is finding that middle ground where you can still see your wallpaper but don't have to dig through a digital junk drawer. I did the same thing with my browser bookmarks after someone pointed out it took me three refreshes just to find the one I needed each time. Ended up making a "quick access" folder with the five I actually use daily and everything else got shoved into a catch-all "old stuff" folder. Now I can get to my booking page, the shift schedule, and the hospital intranet in under two clicks instead of scrolling through a mile long list every single time.
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josephbailey11d ago
@johnson.river three weeks for a pen just sounds like you didn't look hard enough, doesn't it?
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