along one edge.
Wipe it down and reset nightly. Thirty seconds at the end of the day keeps the whole thing from sliding back.
Why an empty surface first
It’s tempting to declutter in place, nudging stacks into neater stacks. It doesn’t work. When everything is already on the desk, you keep negotiating with it: maybe this stays, maybe that’s useful. Clearing the surface to bare wood breaks that negotiation. Now the question flips. Instead of “what can I remove?” you ask “what deserves to come back?” That second question is much easier to answer honestly, and it’s the whole
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