I’m not a natural organizer, but I’m starting to appreciate things that help me organize as I get older.
Have any of you run into some sort of widget or gadget or box or even app that you almost brushed off, but then started using it and now it’s the neatest thing ever?
I guess I’m looking for things you almost wrote off as boring-as-shit before you used it and were converted.
I haven’t missed or been late for an appointment in probably a decade.
Literally just put it in your calendar and add a notification for enough time ahead of it.
I also snooze emails instead of letting my inbox clutter. I have an empty email inbox. Those concert tickets will pop into my inbox right around the day of.
I pre-send texts with a timer. Like if I know I’m driving 5 hrs to see my folks, I’ll pre-send a text for that day that says “on my way, should be there around _____”
That way all I need to do is update them if something goes wrong.
Idk, cell phones make being present, available, and on time, really fucking easy. Like I have severe ADHD, if I am always on time and you’re not, you’re fucking up somewhere. Use the tools in your pocket. It’s easy.
I’ve never heard of pre-sending texts. Is it linked to a specific type of phone?
(I use Android and never have had an iPhone, so sorry if I’m asking something obvious!)
Long press the send button, Holmes 😎
May vary by SMS app. I use googles SMS app on Android.
Holy shit, it’s true.
I’m telling all my friends.
In scheduled texts, of course XD
“You may be wondering why I’m texting you at 3:17 in the morning…”
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Cable box, but roll your cables and tape them together before you chuk them in. Has saved the day, particularly before major trips.
My variant on this is a bunch of toilet paper and paper towel rolls upright in a box with the cables folded up and slipped into the rolls with the connection ends up. Need a USB-C to HDMI? Easy to find. Ethernet, DVI, whatever, all there, easy to find.
Oh, I like that. Make use of something that’d otherwise be trash.
That works for things like Christmas lights too
Yeah, I kind of oops’d my way into this. Have a plastic tub, and I use…not zip ties, but reusable variants of them…to keep various cables together.
It’s mostly SATA cables, HDMI or DVI cables, and computer power cables and a few small power/USB strips. There’s a weird satisfaction to needing a cable for something, opening the tub, and being able to just lift the right one out without dealing with a rat’s nest of whatever.
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Danish cookie tins. mic drop
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Gridfinity.
I’m new to 3D printing but Gridfinity is a game changer. Make your own storage, but this is made to fit into a standard grid, incredibly flexible and useful.
I agree to a certain extent, the idea behind it is pretty awesome. I printed a bunch of grids and organizing pieces a few weeks after the original video dropped, and was pretty impressed by how well most of it worked. The rub comes in with the model sites being fraught with “bad” models that people have tweaked to suit their printers or the hardware they want to use so not everything can be used right away. That kinda thing is hard to measure on screen, in a mesh, so makes a lot of wasted plastic/time.
Not my advice because I have not tried it out but obsidian should be good. I think it’s an organisier app based on nodes.
Huh, it looks very useful. Like a personal wiki. I might give it a whirl.
1-gallon jugs of Arizona iced tea. I drink a ton of the sugar-free Arnold Palmer, and the jugs, as well as their screw on caps, are just high quality. They are thick, high quality plastic, and the cap is sturdy with a good seal. I use them for keeping pre-treated water for topping up my fish tank, isopropyl alcohol for the wash station of my resin 3d printer, and other stuff like that. We also use them for cat food/litter storage and dispensing. I have also used them to store coins, when I had a job that involved cash tips that were mostly coins. I’m sure there are a ton of other uses for such a container. The jug is free if you’re going to spend the $3 on the iced tea anyway. Buying a similar quality jug/container at Walmart costs twice as much, or more, and doesn’t come with anything to drink inside.
I tend to have a lot of bits in drawers, so any type of small sturdy plastic or cardboard boxes are used to help keep drawers tidy. My fave are old business card boxes. Great for things like batteries, clips, lipsticks, hair bands.
I started using sort of odd shaped zipper bags (the kind that come with a piece of furniture or electronics) so instead of 100 little things bouncing around the drawer it’s more like a dozen small baggies.
Before I had a car with a remote, I really liked Keyport organizers. They’re a good way to stop keys from getting clanky and stabby in your pocket. And they have a snazzy flashlight and pocket knife. They’re a fun fidget too.
Oh my gawd!! Looking into this now! Because of my job, I constantly need to carry far too many keys around, including my damn car key fob — meaning when I lean over, I sometimes end up pressing a button on my fob! These look like problem solvers!
They’re awesome. I was kind of disappointed when our old car died and I updated to a vehicle with a fob.
I have never seen one of those before. Those look really cool!
Thank you!
I bought two pieces of the new Milwaukee Packout tool box/organizer shit. Super expensive. Was a bit turned off at the price but I wanted something that stacked. After a series of mistakes the entire thing flew out my trailer and landed in the interstate going 70+ mph. Mother fucker didn’t dint or come open or anything. Barely a scratch. It didn’t even unstack. I spent $300 dollars on a few more pieces and it’s been wonderful.
https://www.milwaukeetool.com/Products/Storage-Solutions/PACKOUT
I mean, boxes in general are my organising style. I keep a lot of aquariums so I bought 8 shoebox sized boxes, one for substrate, one for decor, one for water testing, etc.
In my bathroom I used to have a lot of stuff so I bought a few wicker baskets, hair stuff, skin care, and make up, then a tall cupboard with fabric boxes for cleaning products, toothcare, hair dyes, bath bombs, you know. I have boxes everywhere.
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Bento.
What were the advantages of it for you? Over, say, a “traditional” lunch box?
Katsup area.
I like the way you think.
