I got a top five tips in keeping your work area tidy and usable as submitted by David Ecrune, who was also known, in the chat room as Internet Nut. I would imagined that is David’s You Tube handle as well.
Hey Chris after viewing and reading other users top five lists, I have thought I would send you mine for keeping your area tidy and usable. There are many things about your home office or workstation that can get in your way and cause a lot of hassle. I hope these tips keep that type of stress to an absolute minimum. I hope you like them.
1. Buy cable tidies. You can pick this up pretty cheap and you can get them at general stores. If you are anything like me, as you move things around your desk, the wire is below or behind it can become tangled and hours of frustration can occur when the time comes that you need to tidy it up. This will certain or keep certain wires from certain pieces of equipment all separate from one another and keep computing from being a chore, very true. And if you come into the chat room at live.perla.com and typed in “what is desk” You will get an instant response that will link you off to the videos we have done on my home office tour and the desk, and you will see the cable mess, I mean it is an absolute mess where no one can see it. That is why it does not bother me, no one can see it, they are there but I am not bothered by it.
If I do need to wrap up cords or cables and throw them in the drawer, I have got a couple of drawers back here, like here, I have got – it is not a twisty tie, what it is? I went to, I do not know what it was, like an office supplies store or may be it was a Refilling store and got this long roll of – it is not vel – I mean it is Velcro but it is not, it is a single sided Velcro or double sided but in a single strand. So the soft side is on one part and the other part in which it is not really spiky but is definitely – the other part of the softer side make it adhere to itself. Now, how do you explain Velcro?
Anyway, the idea is that I can send out a strip of the Velcro and then clipped it at a certain length that I want it and then used that instead of twisty ties and it is a little easier to manage and it looks a lot better. I think than most other things plus I really – if I use this kind of stuff, it is typically the same color, black. It really do not have a lot of multicolored things at least for twisty ties.
2. Mark plugs with a sticking label. Be sure not cover any fans which allows heat to leave the equipment but you can use sticking labels to mark plugs. So if you ever need to remove that piece of plugged in equipment, you can do it easily without having to unplug everything to see what is what. Now, you saw me reaching over, I was grabbing this, it is a label maker and quite actually I can just type something in, press the print button, it prints it off, I peel the sticky and I put it on something. And I have learned to do that a lot especially more than for any other reason, and let me see if I got one of these in my drawer, hang on. If the AC adapter, and I think I have given this tip before as a matter of fact, if the AC adapter does not list the company or what it belongs to, then one of first needs I do especially that it looks generic is I label that SOB. I print out exactly what this, what it goes to, etc. So that if I happen to have it in a different location and then what it was supposed to plugged into at least I can bring them back together instead of having a drawers and drawers full of cables with absolutely nowhere to connect and possibly the things that I do not know anymore.
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