Organize Your Office

Where’s your social security card again? Oh yeah, in the desk drawer with your old Coffee Shop Loyalty cards and the misspelled business cards you ordered two years ago. So that’s not optimal.

Once you create a place for everything, you can put everything in its place. Until then, you’ll have no idea where to find a pen.

| Posted: 12 Feb, 2010 by Margaret Mason

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• Light Switch Rack by Paul Koh

  

  This is where you put your keys. Every day. Every time. Look, you just gained an extra half hour a day that used to be devoted to key hunting.

  $25 at MOMA Store | Buy

  

  | Posted 11 Feb, 2010 by Margaret Mason

• Paper Storage

  

  What? You have a lot of stationery, OK?

  $27 at Amazon | Buy

  

  | Posted 10 Feb, 2010 by Margaret Mason

• Cable Cord Organizer

  

  How many times a day are you crawling under your desk?

  $10 at Keep A Cable | Buy

  

  | Posted 09 Feb, 2010 by Margaret Mason

• Corkboard

  

  For inspiration boards, receipt storage, or pretty thumbtack display.

  $50 at CB2 | Buy

  

  | Posted 08 Feb, 2010 by Margaret Mason

• Laptop Stand and Charging Station

  

  The stand offers a hiding place for your power strip.

  $45 at Amazon | Buy

  

  | Posted 05 Feb, 2010 by Margaret Mason

• Page Flags

  

  Use them to track copy errors in the big report. Or to mark where you left off in Wired. Or to create more nuanced Post-It note wall art.

  $5 at See Jane Work | Buy

  

  | Posted 04 Feb, 2010 by Margaret Mason

• Rolodex Cards

  

  The most profound argument for tangible address files I’ve seen in a long while.

  $8 at Lovely Mail Order | Buy

  

  | Posted 03 Feb, 2010 by Margaret Mason

• Aluminum file holder

  

  I love collators like this because they’re so Gal Friday. Use yours for files you like to keep close at hand.

  $35 at Amazon | Buy

  

  | Posted 02 Feb, 2010 by Margaret Mason

• Oh Joy Files

  

  You are so stoked about filing.

  $17 at Chronicle Books | Buy

  

  | Posted 01 Feb, 2010 by Margaret Mason

• Shaped Paper Clips

  

  Pretty paper clips make you excited to collate.

  $6 at See Jane Work | Buy

  

  | Posted 28 Jan, 2010 by Margaret Mason

• Cork Filing Cabinet

  

  The danger here is that the front of your cabinet will slowly start to resemble a 19-year-old’s Myspace page, but I trust you to have restraint.

  $1,000 at 2Modern | Buy

  

  | Posted 28 Jan, 2010 by Margaret Mason

• Laptop Locker

  

  Mount it under your desk and lock your laptop away for the night.

  $92 at Amazon | Buy

  

  | Posted 27 Jan, 2010 by Margaret Mason

• Red Lacquer Storage Box

  

  Like a jewelry box for your paper clips.

  $100 at Gumps | Buy

  

  | Posted 26 Jan, 2010 by Margaret Mason

• Ash Desk Tray Set

  

  A catchall for the odds and ends that otherwise end up scattered all over your desk – your keys, the mail, the 22 USB keys.

  $80 at Tortoise General Store | Buy

  

  | Posted 25 Jan, 2010 by Margaret Mason