Some thoughts on organizing your in-game and out-of-game experience for maximum fun (or at least minimum headache)

UI

Neocom Menu

Tips on organizing your sidebar menu for your own purposes, and some suggestions

We all start somewhere, but knowing where to start is the hardest part in EVE

You need to sort your junk. Get some Giant Secure Containers and set them up to help you sort all your stuff^[1]:

Ammo - For storing all the ammo, rockets, crystals, drones, etc... you come across
Fittings - For
Tags - '
Loot - For all the junk you want to convert to ISK

If you hoard specific things, you may want to add a few more containers, such as:

Blueprints - optionally you can sort blueprints into their appropriate container (ammo blueprints with ammo, etc)
Minerals (or even one per mineral type if you are OCD)