Spring Desktop Cleaning in July

I decided to rearrange my laptop’s desktop. I saw these sweet desktop backgrounds on Lifehacker and I figured “Why not?”

As you can see, my icons aren’t organized in any particular fashion that you might recognize… they’re arranged according to how often I use ‘em.

Often-used programs go on the sticky.

“Work” and other things I access fairly often go onto the file folder or the cubicle wall. (What exactly is that anyway?)

Everything else goes around the outer edges of the screen. A digital no-man’s-land of icons. Those who didn’t make the cut, per se.

Now if only it was this easy to organize my house.

Evernote = EverLove

I’m hooked! I recently checked out Evernote and I think I’m in love. This awesome app is basically a mega-clipboard. You can copy screenshots, formatted text, images, even insert audio and video. It’s got a very cool windows client, and the best part is that it has an iPhone/iPod Touch client, so those people can quickly and easily collect digital scraps of whatever!

I used to use Jing for my screenshotting, and I probably still will use it for a bit longer because I like to be able to save my screenshots immediately, etc. Though I’m sure if I hunt around in Evernote I’ll find all those features that I like about Jing. I already like how Evernote takes over the Print Screen key and makes it a shortcut to Evernote’s screenshotter. One press of “Print Screen” opens an Evernote screenshot box that you can place on your screen somewhere, resize, and more. If you hit “Print Screen” again, you can now add overlays to the screenshot (such as arrows, or handwritten text), finally hit “Enter” and your screenshot is now in Evernote. Cool, huh?!

Man, I can’t wait to paste in some formatted text and collaborate with people on how it should look.