I learned this project organization method from my boss, and it appeals to my obsessive compulsive nature....

I recently cleared my desk and it feels great. For those of you who don't know my office, let me step back.

There are three types of offices in my opinion. The sterile office, the trashed office, and those in between. I fall in between for sure. I won't suggest what's best, because what's best is what works for you. Permit me a story about retired professor James Lombardi. (Not the current Lombardi, but his dad.) He got a call from security one night saying that Carr Hall had been broken in to. The intruders got into his office and absolutely trashed it. James hurried over that night to inspect the damage to his office, looked at the horrified security guard, and said something like "What? It looks fine to me!"