Your desktop is not a to-do list!

Example methods for using the desktop more

productively

http://www.lifeclever.com/how-to-organize-your-cluttered-desktop-and-regain-your-sanity/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexbrie/513199976/

Desktop as app launcher--most used apps (and many not so used apps) positioned in groups according to their basic function i.e. Development, Office, Multimedia, System, Reference etc.

http://lifehacker.com/5049027/xp-goes-back-to-school

http://anabubula.com/content/GTD-wallpaper

http://www.jaacob.com/2006/02/getting-things-done-desktop-backgrounds/

http://antbag.com/how-to-use-your-desktop-and-boost-productivity/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jking89/242563922/

http://www.flippingheck.com/downloads.asp

http://www.davidfisco.com/?q=node/143

http://petitinvention.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/desktop-organizing-wallpaper/

And the ultimate productivity-enabled desktop wallpaper…

http://www.qualitynonsense.com/203/getting-things-done-gtd-wallpaper/

Links• How to organize your cluttered desktop and regain your sanity

– http://www.lifeclever.com/how-to-organize-your-cluttered-desktop-and-regain-your-sanity/

– Great Mac tips and Applescript links in the comments• Featured Desktop: Wallpaper Your Desktops by Context

– http://lifehacker.com/5054241/wallpaper-your-desktops-by-context• Geek to Live: Organizing "My Documents"

– http://lifehacker.com/software/top/geek-to-live--organizing-my-documents-156196.php

• Coding Horror: Your Desktop Is Not a Destination– http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000963.html

• Featured Desktop: XP Goes Back to School– http://lifehacker.com/5049027/xp-goes-back-to-school

• Kinkless Desktop 1: The "No Mercy" Cleanup | Kinkless– http://www.kinkless.com/article/kinkless_desktop/1_no_mercy_cleanup– 5-part series on fighting “desktop entropy,” with a Mac focus

• Featured Desktop: Four-Faced Semi-Transparent "GeekTop"– http://lifehacker.com/5053394/four+faced-semi+transparent-geektop

Links• GTD wallpaper! | Anabubula.com *

– http://anabubula.com/content/GTD-wallpaper• Feature: Top 10 Ways to Trick Out Your Desktop

– http://lifehacker.com/377318/top-10-ways-to-trick-out-your-desktop• Top links list for a Productive Desktop | Hack the Day

– http://www.hacktheday.com/top-links-list-for-a-productive-desktop/• EZ Access Desktops! — Antbag.com

– http://antbag.com/desktops• Layered Desktop - a set on Flickr

– http://www.flickr.com/photos/gr/sets/72157594188036656/• AJ's Blog - Desktop Zen - Reducing Visual Clutter on your Desktop

– http://www.avesh.com/blog/DesktopZenReducingVisualClutterOnYourDesktop.aspx• My Stuff for Getting Things Done: The Ultimate Guide to GTD Desktop

Wallpaper– http://www.mygtdstuff.com/2008/04/ultimate-guide-to-gtd-desktop-wallpaper.html

• GTD Desktop Wallpaper, version 1.0 | David Fisco– http://www.davidfisco.com/?q=node/143

• Remotely Obvious: Organizing your Desktop with an Wallpaper Image– http://remotelyobvious.blogspot.com/2006/09/organizing-your-desktop-with-

wallpaper.html