surprising bursts of productivity

[da]

Today is going OK; I think I'm less sick than yesterday. But perhaps I should get sick more often- my den is much more organized now.

I came home after lunch yesterday because I was fuzzy-headed and everything I had to do at work required concentration. I tried to nap but the Sudafed made me jittery, so instead I started in on cleaning my desk.

By 5:30, I had:

- gone through all my debit receipts and found the health-insurance reimbursables
- sorted all the stacks of paper on my desk and made new folders for the things that needed it
- printed labels for all the folders that needed them (a la Getting Things Done)
- found room for the folders I had sitting on the desk, under the desk, and on the floor
- tossed a thick stack of paperwork I know I'll never need or want
- sorted through half of the old files and either tossed or refiled the categories I had made over a decade ago that don't make sense any more ("Personal records" is my favourite bad category- it included school grades, medical records, and letters excoriating credit-card companies. Ideally, my new categories will make sense when I'm well, or six months from now.)

By the time I went to bed at 9:30, I had:

- removed the last cable-clutter from my desk, by moving the USB hub off to under the desk.
- tossed more old paperwork
- taken down a few old photos and figured out what I wanted to replace them with (mostly).
- framed my favourite magazine cover to bring into work

I don't know where that burst of clutter-reducing energy came from, but I'll take it. Yay clutter reduction!

Comments

[dawn-guy.livejournal.com]

unclutterer may be of interest to you. I found it through a friend recently; looks like a pretty steady two additional articles to read or ignore a day.

As a side effect of switching over to the new Cyrus-based mail server at work and re-thinking my email/folder usage, I seem to be considerably more efficient handling email these days. If I notice the number of my mail folders creeping upward again, I'm going to frown at myself and stamp my foot.

Did you come across any lions in da_lj's den? Not that we have any missing....

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I gave their site a quick skim, and there's some good stuff there- unfortunately they're having database problems, because I want to read the comments on What does it mean to honor mementos?

I'm only so-so with email. Work mail is fine. Personal mail is going to too many places. I told myself I'd figure it out for real when gmail's imap rolled out, and now it has, and I haven't given it much thought yet.

I'm not handing you any lions.