Mastodawn

the adhd organizing experience

buy plastic stacking organizers for your electronics stuff
realize you want to label said organizers
hand-write a few labels, realize it has been a long, long time since you took that drafting class in high school
try to find that label maker you bought back during the 2008 housing crisis
find it and realize it has a USB-B cable
steal the one from your printer
try to find the label maker software
won't install
dig back through the sedimentary layers of the backups of every computer you have ever owned on your NAS
find the original installer from 2008

@gloriouscow in my case I got the label printer as an extra with a printer, and when I tried using it, I could not because I mistakenly switched it to mass storage mode. The part about aliexpress labels is spot on.

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gloriouscow 4d ago

@thias

My ultimate solution was to just print "labels" on my laser printer, cut them out and secure them with packing tape. This actually is probably what i should have done from the start since i can make them much bigger and more readable than the label maker could.

I know they make adhesive label sheets for printers, but I have had the pleasure of tweezering bits of mangled label out of the roller guts of a laser printer before, so that's sort of a "never again" thing for me.

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gloriouscow 4d ago

@thias

Slowly getting there. Im going to need some larger bins to label 'abandoned projects'

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you're all idiots 3d ago

@gloriouscow @thias here's my tip:

Paste the labels on the *inside* of the box. They don't strip off, never get lost.

well now you tell me

lol this is particularly hilarious to me because i've been like awkwardly navigating the taped label up between the extrusions for the locking handles when the inside is just perfectly smooth and any idiot should have figured this out