When your desktop starts becoming a tangle
“For every minute spent organising, an hour is earned.”
— Attributed to Benjamin Franklin
Reference:
Benjamin Franklin Biography – Encyclopaedia Britannica
Something I noticed today while restructuring my Untangle folders was how much easier things become once information has a clear place to live.
Not in a hyper-organised corporate way.
Just operationally.
It’s very easy to put structure off because things still technically work:
files can still be found
drafts still exist
ideas are still moving
the business keeps operating
Until eventually:
retrieval slows down
duplication starts happening
continuity weakens
and the mental load grows in the background
By the time most people stop to reorganise things, it’s usually because the operational friction has already become hard to ignore.
Today I simplified a lot of my own structure around actual use:
website assets
blog drafts
socials
case studies
operations
archives
Not as an aesthetic exercise.
More as a way of reducing future friction while Untangle is still relatively small and manageable.
The interesting part was how quickly clarity returned once everything had a proper operational home.
I think good systems often work like that.
They don’t necessarily make businesses feel “more organised”.
They simply make things easier to:
continue
maintain
retrieve
hand over
and grow over time
Untangle is a study in creating calmer ways of operating.
Untangle is an ongoing exploration of operational clarity, continuity and reducing friction inside businesses.