I don't disagree with you at all. I'm slowly moving in a similar direction. I also agree with that workspace philosophy. Something that I find vital is having a place for certain important things, like car keys. It is the only way that I can not lose them. And when people mess with things that I have organized in such a manner, it is very upsetting.

I quite like Dana K. White’s system for this. When putting something away she asks “if I were looking for this item where would I look for it first?” And wherever that place is is where the item goes. Now I keep all my Sharpie markers in the silverware drawer and I can always find one.

Dana White doesn’t write specifically for the adhd crowd, but I swear she’s the first organizer that has ever made sense to me. There’s more to her system than this, obviously, but not much, and it almost never involves buying more bins.

What worked for me was keeping the wardrobes and drawers open over the several days it took me to reorganize my stuff.

It was (mostly) enough to (somewhat) burn into my memory where (almost) everything is.