{"id":43,"date":"2006-05-15T17:04:23","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T23:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/2006\/05\/15\/processing-the-desktop-like-your-inbox\/"},"modified":"2006-05-15T17:04:23","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T23:04:23","slug":"processing-the-desktop-like-your-inbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"processing the desktop like your inbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/aliases.png\" class=\"alignright\"\/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehacker.com\/software\/getting-to-done\/getting-to-done-spring-cleanout-2-the-digital-version-171950.php\">Keith Robinson had a great post today on spring-cleaning for your desktop<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a tip that I have used to keep the new MacBook Pro&#8217;s desktop clutter free. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to standard aliases (shortcuts, for my Windows friends) to important drives\/directories I have a &#8220;downloads&#8221; folder on my desktop. Everything I save from the web or email goes in here. It&#8217;s easy enough to get to, being on the desktop, and keeps the clutter out of sight. Typically I then manipulate the file as needed, filing it appropriately or deleting it when I am done. If I get distracted or I&#8217;m not ready to use the file, it stays in the download folder.<\/p>\n<p>Each morning I make it a point to &#8220;process&#8221; the downloads folder just like I do with my inbox. I look at each item and either use it (if it will take less than 2 minutes), file it where it belongs, or delete it if it isn&#8217;t needed anymore. If I&#8217;m still not ready to use it, it stays in the folder. At least I know it will be reviewed again the next day.<\/p>\n<p>My old machines had very messy desktops, and I could never find those one-off files when I needed them. While I have only been using this new system for six weeks or so, it&#8217;s been very effective so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Robinson had a great post today on spring-cleaning for your desktop. Here&#8217;s a tip that I have used to keep the new MacBook Pro&#8217;s desktop clutter free. In addition to standard aliases (shortcuts, for my Windows friends) to important drives\/directories I have a &#8220;downloads&#8221; folder on my desktop. Everything I save from the web [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fribble","tag-hack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markup.thekraemers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}