Organization

A Clean Kitchen Helps

Feeling a little claustrophobic in your own kitchen lately? I certainly was. When the pandemic started, I struggled with figuring out how to juggle a fully at-home food situation. Getting used to making and eating three meals at home rather than the customary one—or even none on some especially commute-heavy days with little time to…

Tech News Catie Keck

3 Nerdy, But Useful, Things to Do Around Your House While Stuck at Home

Being stuck at home sucks. One of the best things you can do—besides absolutely staying at home—is to make some updates to said home. How do you do that? There are lots of ways. For example, you could clean things; your windows, floors, kitchen, surely those things could use a once over. Of course, that’s…

io9 Germain Lussier

Simple Stickers Help You Figure Out Where All Your Gadgets Are Plugged In

The tangled mess of wires under your desk isn’t just an eyesore. It can also make it impossible to figure out where every gadget on your desk is plugged in. Is it safe to unplug this adapter? Oops, there goes the backup drives. Unless, of course, everything was properly labeled with easy to interpret stickers.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Flag All Company Emails for Faster Inbox Processing

Internal emails from the company you work for can be crucially important or a complete irrelevance—either way, being able to spot these company messages at a glance in your inbox can make a big difference to your email productivity. Here’s how to quickly set up a filter in three of the most popular desktop clients.…

Gadgets David Nield

Are You a Digital Hoarder?

I save absolutely everything I create digitally. I have docs titled “copy of copy of copy of copy,” lest I lose an earlier version. I compulsively screenshot stuff that strikes me as funny or scandalous. You are either like me or you are not. How preserved is your digital life? I also save too much…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

Evernote’s New Desk Organizers Keep Your Physical Stuff Tidy Too

Evernote has been helping you organize your digital world for a while, and now it has a little more to offer as far as your desk is concerned; it’s just added a whole new line of desk organizers to its offerings. The Pheiffer Collection was designed by furniture maker Eric Pfeiffer in collaboration with Evernote’s…

Tech News Leslie Horn

You Can Customize This Desk’s Modular Cages In Countless Ways

If something I own is not in my direct line of sight, it’s likely that I won’t remember it exists; this is a common excuse I use for why my apartment is never particularly tidy (“I need to see everything, all at once!”). This also might be why I love the look of this Grid…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

How Do You Use Tech to Indulge Your Inner Organizer?

Everyone has something that they work on and keep obsessively organized. It could be a calendar, a Bitcoin mining rig, or an entire life, but we all find that meditative, Container Store satisfaction somewhere. I’ve noticed a bunch of things I organize obsessively. My sock flow (new socks with the tags on, socks currently in…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Livescribe Smartpen 3: Note Taking Magic in a Luxury Package

So you want to take hand-written notes but you don’t want to transcribe them onto your computer? No problem. Livescribe’s new Smartpen 3 is a magic for note-taking tool that automatically translates your scratches and scrawls into an iPad or iPhone app. When you write notes in a Livescribe notebook, it instantly ports them over…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Grid Has The Organization Of A Spreadsheet Without Those Pesky Number

I’ve definitely used Excel for some wordy stuff. It’s not blasphemous exactly, but making charts full of apartment listings, square footage, amenity notes, broker e-mail addresses, and links to photos doesn’t really make use of Excel’s formula wielding, number crunching prowess. But a former Excel developer who knows this dirty little secret, built an app…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

The Wildly Functional Studio of Video Wizard Casey Neistat: Part III

For the final leg of our tour, Neistat brings us into his studio within a studio, where work and play collide. From a old-timey fire extinguisher, to a foldaway speed-bag, the miscellany extends from floor to ceiling, reflecting the same personality that comes across in Neistat’s movies. This is part three of a three-part video…

Tech News Michael Hession

Harness The Magic Of Magnets To Stop Cables From Sliding Off Your Desk

A strategically placed binder clip or a chunk of cinderblock are both cheap and easy ways to stop unused nuisance cables from falling off your desk. But why settle for those eyesores when the MOS, or Magnetic Organization System, provides a far more elegant way to tether all your wires? It’s basically a contoured triangular…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Organize Your Desk With a Boat

You should see my desk. It’s a goddamn nightmare explosion of pens, business cards, empty coffee cups, and random crap. These modular Desktructure Organizers would more than do the job of sprucing things up. They’re pretty adorable, too. One is a ship, another is a a city, and the third one is a collection of…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Location Marking Stickers Guarantee People Will Put Your Stuff Back Where It Belongs

Designed for neat freaks, the obsessive compulsive, or anyone tired of borrowed gear not returning to where it belongs, these simple location marking stickers serve as the perfect reminder as to where your stuff goes. At $17 for a pack of 60 they’re a little expensive, so thankfully you DIY-minded types can accomplish the same…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Not-So-Elusive Shower Stall Squid Wrangles All Your Bottles

Stealing Mother Nature’s multi-tentacle squid design has already proven useful for power bars and USB hubs. So it’s not surprising that this fake squid also looks right at home in a shower stall, keeping bottles and other cleaning accessories close at hand. https://gizmodo.com/the-usb-squid-hub-265835 Made from latex rubber and available for $35 in red, blue, or…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Auto Cable Winder Is the Cure For Knotted Headphones

If you spend more time untangling your headphones than listening to music—and turn your nose up at clunky wireless solutions—consider these automatic Recoil winders that make the grandiose promise of knot-free cables. Not only are they a rare Kickstarter win, but they actually appear to deliver on everything they promise. When you’re done with your…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

A Cheap and Simple Add-On to Keep Your iPhone Charger Blessedly Untangled

Like earphones, the iPhone’s charging cable seems pre-disposed to becoming a knotted tangle of cable whenever it’s placed inside a bag. But you can fight back—and save yourself several unpleasant minutes of untangling—with this no frills cable wrap accessory. Simply and appropriately called The Wrap, this $10 plastic accessory secures itself to the USB end…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Hallucinating Robots Make the Best Interior Designers

We humans are already kind of afraid of robots, so here’s a good idea: what if we make them trip balls and hallucinate imaginary people everywhere? Seems like it would drive them to madness and make them turn on us even faster, but researchers at Cornell University’s Robot Learning Lab think it will make them…

Artificial Intelligence Brent Rose

Don’t End Up With a Rat’s Nest: How To Store Your Holiday Decorations

It’s over. It’s time to take all those decorations down and store them. Unless you want to deal with another rat’s nest of cables and pile of broken ornaments like you did a few weeks ago, you’ll take my advice and get organized. Lights: The old lets-wrap-it-around-our-arm-like-a-garden-hose method is dumb. You might as well wad…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

The Besom Holder: Sweeping Desktop Simplicity

I don’t know how old this Besom Holder organizer is or if you’ve seen it before. Don’t care. There’s something about the duality of this clean design that required posting today. I’ll take two. [bookofjoe via Fancy It via Anthropologie]

Tech News Jack Loftus

Organization

A Clean Kitchen Helps

3 Nerdy, But Useful, Things to Do Around Your House While Stuck at Home

Simple Stickers Help You Figure Out Where All Your Gadgets Are Plugged In

Flag All Company Emails for Faster Inbox Processing

Are You a Digital Hoarder?

Evernote’s New Desk Organizers Keep Your Physical Stuff Tidy Too

You Can Customize This Desk’s Modular Cages In Countless Ways

How Do You Use Tech to Indulge Your Inner Organizer?

Livescribe Smartpen 3: Note Taking Magic in a Luxury Package

Grid Has The Organization Of A Spreadsheet Without Those Pesky Number

The Wildly Functional Studio of Video Wizard Casey Neistat: Part III

Harness The Magic Of Magnets To Stop Cables From Sliding Off Your Desk

Organize Your Desk With a Boat

Location Marking Stickers Guarantee People Will Put Your Stuff Back Where It Belongs

Not-So-Elusive Shower Stall Squid Wrangles All Your Bottles

Auto Cable Winder Is the Cure For Knotted Headphones

A Cheap and Simple Add-On to Keep Your iPhone Charger Blessedly Untangled

Hallucinating Robots Make the Best Interior Designers

Don’t End Up With a Rat’s Nest: How To Store Your Holiday Decorations

The Besom Holder: Sweeping Desktop Simplicity

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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Organization

A Clean Kitchen Helps

3 Nerdy, But Useful, Things to Do Around Your House While Stuck at Home

Simple Stickers Help You Figure Out Where All Your Gadgets Are Plugged In

Flag All Company Emails for Faster Inbox Processing

Are You a Digital Hoarder?

Evernote’s New Desk Organizers Keep Your Physical Stuff Tidy Too

You Can Customize This Desk’s Modular Cages In Countless Ways

How Do You Use Tech to Indulge Your Inner Organizer?

Livescribe Smartpen 3: Note Taking Magic in a Luxury Package

Grid Has The Organization Of A Spreadsheet Without Those Pesky Number

The Wildly Functional Studio of Video Wizard Casey Neistat: Part III

Harness The Magic Of Magnets To Stop Cables From Sliding Off Your Desk

Organize Your Desk With a Boat

Location Marking Stickers Guarantee People Will Put Your Stuff Back Where It Belongs

Not-So-Elusive Shower Stall Squid Wrangles All Your Bottles

Auto Cable Winder Is the Cure For Knotted Headphones

A Cheap and Simple Add-On to Keep Your iPhone Charger Blessedly Untangled

Hallucinating Robots Make the Best Interior Designers

Don’t End Up With a Rat’s Nest: How To Store Your Holiday Decorations

The Besom Holder: Sweeping Desktop Simplicity

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor *And* an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Let us help find what you are looking for...

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!