What are your tools for taming chaos?

When I recently dug down to bedrock on my desk (chided so many times by the fluther greeting that I was getting ashamed to show up!), I passed through several strata of clipboards. In the end I think I found seven. I realized that every purchase of a clipboard represented some sort of attempt to get my life, or at least the contents of my desktop, under control.

(Now I have a funny little stack of empty clipboards.)

What do you find yourself doing or buying when you’ve lost your sense of mastery over your environment? Storage boxes, shelving, label makers, clips? Does it help?