A Calm Desk in Five Steps: My Minimal Setup

A five-step reset that turns a cluttered work surface into a quiet place you actually want to sit down at.
My desk used to be a parking lot for everything that didn’t have a home. Receipts, a charger I no longer recognized, three half-empty notebooks, a mug graveyard. I told myself it was the look of a busy mind, but really it was just friction. Every time I sat down I spent the first ten minutes moving things before I could start. So one slow Sunday I cleared the whole surface and rebuilt it on purpose. Here is the setup