Creating a desktop work flow process will help you be more efficient so you can focus on your projects rather than feel overwhelmed by desktop clutter.

Customize your folders and desktop icons helps you to quickly and easily locate your favorite applications, the projects you are working on, and your most important files and folders.

Rapidly finding and identifying the files you are looking for speeds up your work and reduces stress.

Customizing your desktop with my Workflow Collection icons can show a night and day difference

Workflow Desktop Icons

• It contains the Inbox icon (shown above) for your “collection buckets” such as your folder for downloads, your folder for brainstorming, URLs you’re saving, images and loose ideas that need to be processed.
• The TO-DO icon (a clipboard) can be used for “next actions.
• The Doing icon (a gear) for “active projects”
• The pending icon (an hourglass) for “waiting for” and
• The archive icon for “completed projects”.

This method works excellently for David Allen’s Getting Things Done (or GTD) action management method but also for personal methods of staying productive and organized in a simple way.

Not sure how to customize your icons?  Click here for a great tutorial!

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About the Collection of Workflow Desktop Icons

The Collection of Workflow Icons bring an essential, flowing and harmonious structure to your desktop with a minimum of effort, by organically following your workflow.

Workflow is designed to give your desktop or design a graceful, timeless and classic look & feel, featuring a vibrant colour palette and wood textures that contribute to a fluid and natural design. The Workflow Collection effortlessly integrates a Getting Things Done (GTD) approach into your digital life.

Workflow Icons are part of a series with three collections of Productive Icons. Available collections: Organizer Icons and Creative Icons.

Buy Workflow Desktop Icons $12

• Inbox, full wooden inbox, to organize, to sort out
• To Do, wooden clipboard with paper, to read, to learn, to listen to
• Doing, metal gear, current, WIP, work in progress, ongoing, doing now, active project
• Pending, hourglass, deal with later, perhaps
• Done, empty wooden inbox, finished, completed, to archive
• Archive, wood filing drawer, archived
• Matching Wooden Folder.

This volume of icons is designed to make it easy to customize your digital environment, helping you stay focused and organized by color coding your projects. Think of it as a stimulus package for your desktop!

Detoxing your desktop and keeping it uncluttered is an easy and enjoyable task with Ready Steady Go Luminous Folder Icons.

One way to manage your projects with ease, is to use these folder icons to color code your folders, indicating how urgent a project is. Red for urgent, yellow for medium and green for finished projects.

With a total of twelve folder icons in shades of red, yellow and green, these folder icons are designed to kick start your desktop with an uncluttered, productive and beautiful desktop environment!

4 red folder icons: Brick Red, Garnet, Crimson and Vermillion.
4 yellow folder icons: Autumn Oak, Amber, Lemon and Naples Yellow.
4 green folder icons: Pine, Olive Green, Birch and Lime Green.

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The Complete Series of Luminous Icons:

Luminous Blue Folder Icons
Luminous Ready Steady Go (red, yellow & green)
Luminous Greyscale Icons
Luminous Purple Folder Icons
Luminous Orange Folder Icons
Luminous Pink Folder Icons