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.
Bento.
What were the advantages of it for you? Over, say, a “traditional” lunch box?
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!
Cable box, but roll your cables and tape them together before you chuk them in. Has saved the day, particularly before major trips.
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.
Have a plastic tub, and I use…not zip ties, but reusable variants of them
Double-sided Velcro works great for this. They sell pre cut strips but it’s cheaper to buy a whole roll of it and cut it as needed. I actually made a jig to cut the roll down the middle so I could get twice as much. I’m pretty much set for life on that stuff now.
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.
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.
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
When you can’t even remember to put the event in your calendar, what are you supposed to do? Make a reminder to put the reminder in your calendar?
I put it in when the event is created.
Like I take my phone out when I’m at the desk making an appt for whatever.
