There's plenty of professional, well researched advice about how to organize a fridge based on the perishability of the items and the design of the fridge. I know some but follow none of this advice. Search it up if you're interested.
I'm here to encourage you to follow some organization scheme, which may or may not be that one.
Regardless of how crisp your vegetables stay in the crisper drawer, it's useful to know that there are vegetables because the drawer isn't empty, and that there aren't when there it is empty. When you go get groceries, it's easier to take a glance in the fridge and see how full each section is than to inventory by item. It usually doesn't matter much if you have duplicates of something because you can always make more with it. Lacking or overfilling an entire category is where problems arise.
If you buy so many groceries that you cannot consistently organize your fridge, you have bigger problems. Either you need a larger fridge, or you need to buy less at a time.
Most people need to buy less at a time. No one benefits from a stuffed fridge. It just makes it harder to find things before they go bad.
Regardless, your fridge should be nearly empty by the time you go grocery shopping. Otherwise, what are you even doing buying more?
- Rew
Nightly Notes
My mind is a pinball and my schedule is a whirlpool and in all this chaos, what is there left to contemplate but fridge organization?
I'm a procrastinator, if that wasn't clear.
Anyway.
I've been thinking about how to get people started in the productivity space. A friend asked for advice recently.
I subsist on an amalgamation of my own crazy scripts, because I like scripting and get picky about how my data is handled. I can't recommend that. I don't really recommend anything here either. This is deliberately non-structured and full of trivial tweaks.
It's not the guiding hand you need to get started sorting out a mess. I'm not sure I've seen that guiding hand, accompanied by reasoning and explanation for how to design a good productivity system, anywhere.
Getting Things Done is the canonical reference, but it's outdated and long. I read it as a curiosity, not as a guide. How many productivity books are worth reading over their summaries? Not many.
I'm not convinced I could do better for my friends, but I want to try.
- Rew