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The Alpha QuickFind: A Standalone Series of Junk Drawers

…organized alphabetically

By Rain Noe - July 5, 2023

in Organization

Here's a rather bizarre organizational object that will appeal to those whose brains are wired a certain way. The designers of the Alpha QuickFind have created a sort of standalone junk drawer, or more specifically five drawers, plus a sixth pull-out compartment meant to serve as a handwritten index of the contents.

The thinking is that, in order to know precisely where to store and later retrieve an object, they all ought be organized alphabetically.

The drawer dividers are user-configurable and letter stickers are included.

I guess I can see the logic, but parts of the design seem very strange to me; like, how did they calculate the uneven distribution of letters across drawers?

The Alpha QuickFind runs $500.

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Jason Scala

a year ago

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I've always found great joy in the small discoveries lurking within disorganized junk drawers (which seems redundant, now that I see it typed out).

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Andrew Block

a year ago

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Perhaps I am missing the consumer-centricity of this solution. The junk drawer is that place where you throw that random (sometimes transient) stuff in because it does not justify a home, or even a place in a tool box. Big box stores already sell stacking and easier to organize bins for a fraction of this that will take less space and effort to organize. @$500, and with the labeling, size, and need to almost obsessively manually label each compartment, this is a solution looking for a problem, or a unique person's "If I want it, there must be a lot of other people that do" idea.

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DAVE CANNON

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This thing is not designed for me. I think it might be one of the dumbest ideas I've seen.

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