In her blog post on Fast Company, Ellen Lupton (author of Thinking With Type) talks about the curious habit of piling up papers. This particular quote gave me a bit of hope, as it exactly describes my working style:

She describes her work style as “managing through piles.” MacLear assigns each project its own stack of papers. “If I don’t see them (they are in a cabinet) then the project might as well be in cold storage,” she says. Many productivity experts agree that documents should stay more or less visible until you are finished using them. At that point, most papers can either be recycled or banished to closed filing cabinets.

How does everyone else arrange their workspace?