I am a huge fan of Flickr, a photo-sharing website owned by Yahoo. Although there are lots of alternatives out there, I find Flickr the most consistently easy to use – combine this with a thriving, creative community and Flickr is clearly a favourite among this type of site.

As well as just sharing your own photo content, I find Flickr to be really useful for discovering fabulous inspirational images on a host of different subjects – hobbies, art, architecture to name a few – I’ve never failed to find an image no matter how bizarre the search terms (though there is some really weird stuff on there).

This post is about finding organizing inspiration via Flickr – and I have had a good browse through the site to find some great examples of organizing mojo, visually documented by the community.

• A Beautiful Bookshelf – Truly a pinnacle of semi-obsessed organizing, this is a very photogenic bookshelf that only true bibliophiles might aspire to. This image has done the rounds of the social network scene, and has become very popular.
• The Pretty Organized Group – Exactly what it says on the tin – A Flickr Group dedicated to showing inspiring exmaples of organizing, in the home, at work, wherever.
• Unclutterer Workspaces – A sideline of the very smart Unclutterer blog, this is a Flickr group for people sharing images of their highly organized workspaces. If you want a tidier desk, you could do wore than to browse this gallery for inspiration.
• Organized Collection – Another organizing group, this time dedicated to collections of things. If you’re a collector of any kind, then this could be a great place to check out for storage ideas.
• What’s in my bag? – This was a very popular Flickr meme for a while, prompting people to photograph and post what they were carrying in their bag on a regular basis. This is full of ideas, interesting and (slightly) voyeuristic – always worth a look!

For those of us who are into productivity techniques, personal workflow systems, GTD, notebooks and note-making, there are even more fabulous links to look through.

• Moleskine Notebooks – I am a huge lover of Moleskine notebooks, and Flickr has some fantastic images of how people organize, store and use their notebooks. See also the Moleskinerie Flickr group.
• Jazzmasterson – Undoubtedly my favourite Flickr user, with some truly jaw-dropping personal management concepts and systems – Getting Things Done with Index Cards and External Memory being the top two.
• The Slip Method – Although this organizing/productivity technique is a little complex compared to systems like GTD, I love browsing through these images for ideas and inspiration on managing my own paper workflow better.
• Time-Management Analogue style – Dave Gray of Xplane has done a wonderful shot of a personal workflow notebook, with a really clever idea for tagging your pages and marking your to-do lists. This idea was originally conceived by Bill Westerman.
• DIYPlanner – A great gallery for planner nerds, with some really clever ideas and suggestions to get more from your ubertool.
• Pile of Index Cards – yes, I love ‘em. If they helped you as much as me, you’d love ‘em too. This is a small but very interestinggroup about the Pile of Index Cards methodology.

If you use Flickr, feel free to add me as a contact – If you come across any organizing images that you think are interesting or noteworthy please forward them on.