[header] How to organize a computer desk [title] Place four boxes or baskets on your desk. [step] Sort all the items you use every day into one basket, and all the items you use less frequently into the next basket. Pile any papers scattered on your desk into the third basket for later sorting. 
Anything you come across that you know you won't actually use--including that extra calculator you've had hanging around, or extra pencils and pens that are just clutter--goes in the fourth box. [substeps] Clean out all your desk drawers and cubbies, too.