After reading about all you proud organized people, I feel the need to confess; I'm a total slob, chaos is my middle name.
People are different and brain organization processes are all over the map.
Whatever work for each of you must be respected as your personal style.
As for my own style, I found that order is more productive. Is like finance, the time invested in organizing, cleaning up, storing and labeling rationally pay big dividends both in money and time saving. Disorder is like borrowing time at high interest.
When my shop gets messy, and it does, I find myself running around, mowing stuff to make room to lay down a new operation such as moving the collets and the end mill boxes to make room for the granite table to layout a new piece. The time to find tools increase, meantime I lose focus and fail to see a print detail. Machine a feature in the wrong location.
As soon as I sense that, is time out, clean up, put away stuff. One thing I truly hate is chips on the floor, broom and vacuum are the most used tools.
I spent my professional life in an electronic R&D lab. A no-man land where most people attitude was: "My work is so important that I will build the circuit to test, assemble the bench, discard broken equipment or empty bins without bothering to reorder, and when done leave the bench as is, full of solder ball, unused components, balls of tangled probes and anything I used strew around or on the floor because I am too damn important to pick it up"
These people were working the hardest and produced the slowest and at low quality.
All technicians and young engineers I mentored were taught to start with a clean bench, permanently connected cables out of the way, draped behind and test probes easy to follow and untangle so you knew which trace was showing what.
And so many other measuring techniques and good habits. They all had rewarding careers.
You may say I am certifiable Anal Retentive OCD