I don't know if there's more to it than these two sides of the same coin, but every time I move house, when I pull something out of the box and go to put it "away," wherever it's going to stay from then on, I close my eyes for a second and think, "If all I knew was that I had already unpacked this, but I couldn't remember where I'd put it, where would I go look for it first?" and then I go put it there and that becomes its home.

Check out Dana K. White. She uses this principle along with 5 other "rules" to declutter. Has really helped me get my space in order.

I just spent fully 15 minutes trying to find anywhere there's a simple list of what the 5 rules are. Couldn't get AI search bots to pull it up for me either.

I don't know whether I'm more worried for her, that her work is somehow disorganized enough for this not to be screaming obvious, repeatedly, throughout her blog, or worried for the state of my ability to search the internet anymore, when I used to find it to easy to find specific things like lists of rules online.

Still haven't actually found the list, but I'm done trying.

I found it via Kagi[1] as the first non-video result. https://www.aslobcomesclean.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/D...

[1] https://kagi.com/search?q=dana+white+5+rules&r=us&sh=-_lVctP...