The joy of a clean computer destop

11 October 2013

Last July, I cleared off my very cluttered computer desktop. As I wrote then, it took only 50 minutes and I did it while flying on an airplane.

It’s been three months, and I just have to share how wonderful it’s been to have a clear desktop! It’s not that I look at my computer’s desktop much—I’m one of these people with multiple computer programs open all the time.

But what’s handy is that the desktop is now a place I can park things temporarily, like photographs I want to upload to one of my blogs. Anything I save there hangs out at the right margin of my screen. When I need to select a file in a Finder window, I click on Desktop and there are just a few there, typically.

I had no idea this would be such a time saver. And it’s so easy to maintain. When I notice files there, I just move them to the appropriate folder or to the trash. It’s really become a very useful temporary holding place for me.

And it makes me feel good when my computer boots up!

Here’s how my desktop looks today. (It’s an image that came with the computer, one of a few that rotate through.)