Currently they’re in types in ziploc baggies but there must be a better way
the baggies:
- USB A > USB C
- USB C <> USB C
- USB A > USB B Micro
- Ethernet
- HDMI to different sized HDMI
- HDMI to USB B
- HDMI to other USB
- HDMI to HDMI
- USB female to male and extenders
- Dongles, converters, and USB hubs
- VGA
- USB A to lightning bolt
- A few old ipod charging cables
Not pictured: separate drawer for guitar cables, XLR, headphones jack to jack and adapters, phono and midi; separate duffel bag for long power cables; separate baggie in another drawer for international adapters and plugs
Toiletpaper-rolls works 👍
Oh, that is brilliant!
no brilliant, only dull
Which this solution is. No excitement or other problems. Just grab a cable and off you go.
Right, sorry, I got carried away.
That’s a great idea, plus you can label them on the outside of the roll!
I mostly use assorted small cardboard boxes – usually from computer peripherals.
That’s a great hack. Reduces the cleanup of having them zip tied together too. Grab and go
This is very clever.
What did you do with all that toilet paper, though?
Shit on it
You’ll make the bidet people cry
You can use a bidet to keep the cables in, too
You guys have drawers??
Things like this make me think of the only good advice from Jordan Peterson.
Are you kidding me? I have 21 drawers of cables and bs.
(Not all of these are filled / bottom right are empty)
I was about to ask if you could show off some of your assorted cables, then I couldn’t stop thinking of Professor Farnsworth
Prof. Farnsworth: Let me show you around. That’s my lab table and this is my work-stool. And over there is my intergalactic spaceship! And here’s where I keep assorted lengths of wire.
Fry: Whoa! A real live spaceship!
Prof. Farnsworth: I designed it myself. Let me show you some of the different lengths of wire I used.
How are you organizing your spare cable drawer?
Should I be?
Buy a refrigerator box, write “CABLES” on every side and put all cables in the box
Sorted
Rubber band everything and throw them in a series of different drawers of varying sizes with a vague organizational scheme
Michael’s store sells thee 16 5x7 photo organizers in a carry case.
It’s called Simply Tidy: Photo and Craft Keeper. Also fits 3.5 inch HDDs.
No drawers in the server closet, so 3D printer to the rescue:
Ponytail hair rubber bands. soft on the cables, reusable, cheap…
Mine are just chucked in with no organisation whatsoever. If I want a cable I have to search the entire box and untangle it from all the other cables.
Throw them in and let them become one.
Like a techno rat king!
For those that haven’t yet discovered them, reusable cable ties exist. They make keeping cables properly coiled a lot easier. No more rat kings!
I have all the “USB-A to ?” cables rubber banded together at the opposite end. That way I can find the non USBA side that I need quickly.
Organize?
I use a combination of zip lock bags and small cardboard boxes with the contents written on the outside.
