I am so attentive to how my Mac is organized. Everything has a place, and everything must be in place. I can find a file in seconds (yes, even without Spotlight), and there is not one thing out of place, it’s all perfectly in order and sorted. In other words, I have a little OCD to how my Mac looks.
Here’s a little insight to how I operate with my main desktop, my Dashboard, and my tidy Finder.
The only items you ever see on my desktop are hardware icons, such as servers, removable media, and iPod’s. I keep the dock very simple and only leave things in it that I use many times a day.
I like to limit how many widgets I have open because of the system resources they take up. Two widgets I couldn’t live without are iStat Pro, and Mint stats.
I have the popular “Agua” icon set applied by CandyBar to make my icons look attractive. I cant wait to see what Apple does in Leopard in regard to system icons.
So how does your Mac look? Are you like me and have everything in place and organized, or do you just use your desktop as a dumping ground?