I am constantly looking for new ways to decrease how much thinking I have to do.
If you work in a crap environment how can you be expected to produce anything but crap?
I find that some of the most straining focus is caused by looking at long lists of folders that all look identical.
I am a huge fan of colour coding folders based on intensity. I make the “hot” folders red, and the stable ones green and blue. This way it’s possible to jump immediately to the most traveled folders on your system even if you’re blurry eye drunk.
But colour coding can only go so far. I’m talking about changing the whole damn icon.. Create a theme of your operating system so that you don’t have to think where things go…
I used icons from the free section of “the iconfactory”, you should head over there and check out the great stuff they have there for new custom os x icons.
Once you download the icon packages, you can copy and paste them onto the default ones in the “Get Info” dialogue box [Commad + I].