I just watched some video on YT about a “physics model” desktop where you create piles of documents, somewhat like you might do on a real desktop. I’ve seen it before, but hadn’t thought about it in a while. Models like that cause me almost physical pain. My real desk is a catastrophe; here in front of me right now I have piles of DVDs and CDs, a metric tonne of paper (much of it neon Post-It notes), a couple of cards, a postcard, a barrette, two hair elastics (I won’t say “rubber band” because they’re not–they’re covered elastics), a bottle of ibuprofen, one of Benadryl, one of Tylenol caplets, antacid (live on those things), pens, pencils, a tube of Ozonol (for paper cuts), NyQuil, an LED flashlight, a pink plastic duck on a keyring (the duck has LED lights in it) and the end of the USB cable for my camera (the other end is plugged into the computer). If I have to find a paper or note on my desk, it could take forever (if I can find it at all), but that’s okay because none of it is important. Important stuff is descriptively named and neatly tucked away in folders on my HDD where I can make the computer do the work when I want to find something. My computer desktop makes me happy because there’s nothing on it at all, not even mounted volumes (I love you, Gnome). It’s my default download directory, and there’s a reason for that–I can’t stand clutter there, so it forces me to NOT just leave stuff I’ve downloaded all dumped together. If I don’t want to make myself crazy, then I have to sort and file it as I download it, and if I no longer need it, then I trash it. If I wanted to look at clutter, I’d go look at P’s desktop. *shudder* Mine is tidy, fairly spartan and pretty. 🙂