Desk Accessories

Your desk has sticky notes in three colors, a pile of loose paper, two notebooks (one for work, one for personal), and somewhere in there is the to-do list you wrote four days ago that you haven’t looked at since. A physical planning board is the fix — something you can see without unlocking your phone, write on without logging in, and change without having to find the right app. ...

I spent two years ignoring the dull ache in my right wrist before I finally did something about it. Every afternoon, around 3 PM, my hand would start to feel tight, and by 5 PM I was shaking it out between clicks. A coworker let me try her vertical mouse and within a week I’d ordered my own. The pain didn’t vanish overnight, but it went from “I should see a doctor” to “I notice it sometimes.” ...