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by egypturnash
3244 days ago
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I'm looking at my very much un-knolled desk, which has more piles than I would prefer it to, and it strikes me that if I regularly knolled this desk it would compel me to decide that maybe some of these things really don't belong on it, maybe some of them don't even need to stick around my life at all. I mean clearly the toy dragon princess standing atop a pile of stray cash and a few doubloons is an important part of my desk and does not need to move. But does this wireless kit I'm never gonna attach to my drawing tablet need to be here? What about that badly-laid-out paperback copy of "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" that I quit reading in favor of a hardback copy a friend gave me? What about the dust jacket for that hardback? That probably belongs on the book sitting in my To Read pile with a bookmark a fifth of the way through it, not on my desk. And while pens are good to have maybe I only need one or two of them, not sixteen? Would I have accumulated even a quarter as much stuff on this desk if I knolled it every morning? Knolling is starting to feel like a way of stopping clutter before it starts. |
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The top sheet of the pad has a context dump of what I was working on when I left, where I was stuck etc and a single action to take (usually an easy win).
I find that knowing exactly where to start the next day makes momentum easier to pick up and the process of deciding on what to do next morning gets work out my head so I can leave without dwelling on work.
Colleagues sometimes jok about it but their desks look like a grenade hit them and they often can't find anything so I'll take my approach.
I have my own office at work so I make sure that's tidy as well, th cleaners have been asked not to touch it (I prefer they don't move my stuff around)