My Japanese Desktop
Recently, my lab notebook’s desktop has become cluttered with icons.
When I first came to japan, one thing that stood out for me about japanese students was how their desktops would be FULL of icons - so many that I couldn’t make sense of what was going on. There were icons for folders and files in all rows and all cols of the desktop, and with a very high screen resolution too!
Now, to be honest, I’m not sure if this is something common to japanese engineering students, or more people around the engineering world have this habit - maybe it is me who is too compulsive about hiding all icons under a meter high pile of directory hierarchies… I don’t know.
Anyway, what happens is that recently this has changed - from a few months ago, I guess. I started creating folders for my conferences, and for things that I had to get done, and just left them there. Then my advisor started giving me tasks with small attachments on them (docs to read/translate, forms to fill) - and those were also left around - for reminding me of getting around to them/future reference.
Now, you might say it is not that messy, but for my former standards… ack. Seems that now I have to get around cleaning my virtual desk as well as my real one (don’t get me started on that one.).
How messy are you with your computer?