--- title: A Dot a Day Keeps the Clutter Away — Scott Lawson description: A maker shares a four-year-old physical organization system for electronics components using colored dot stickers. The core rule: place one dot sticker on a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-dot-a-day-keeps-the-clutter-away-scott-lawson-nxhwicqnq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A Dot a Day Keeps the Clutter Away — Scott Lawson | daily.dev og:description: A maker shares a four-year-old physical organization system for electronics components using colored dot stickers. The core rule: place one dot sticker on a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-dot-a-day-keeps-the-clutter-away-scott-lawson-nxhwicqnq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NXhwiCQnq.png og:image:alt: A Dot a Day Keeps the Clutter Away — Scott Lawson og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A Dot a Day Keeps the Clutter Away — Scott Lawson **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A maker shares a four-year-old physical organization system for electronics components using colored dot stickers. The core rule: place one dot sticker on a box each day you use it, with a different color per year. This creates a visual usage-frequency dashboard across hundreds of clear storage boxes. The system revealed surprising insights — cross-cutting infrastructure parts (glue, tape, fasteners, power components) are used far more than specialized sensors or tools. The author describes a hot/warm/cold storage tiering based on dot density, practical tips for bags-as-subdirectories, and principles for maintaining the system over time. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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