Top 10 Products Designed For Top Notch Storage & Organization Of Your Desk

A cluttered desk can really be the worst thing to start your day with! It hampers your productivity and completely bogs down your mind, making it difficult to complete even the simplest of tasks. This is where I find desk organizers and other storage solutions to be ideal.  I’ve found that adding a desk organizer to my desk setup can amp up my productivity immensely! An organizer can transform your desk from an utter mess to a neat and tidy space that will essentially boost your productivity. And, we’ve collected a range of functional, practical, and aesthetically pleasing products that will organize your desk completely, while also storing away all your essentials efficiently.

1. Hanging Desk Organizer

Meet the modular and super innovative hanging desk organizer! Workspaces today tend to be ever-evolving, and quite hectic, hence it is important to utilize and organize our precious space in a correct and efficient manner, and this is where the Hanging Desk Organizer comes in!

Why is it noteworthy?

This unique edge-hanging organizer completely destroys the usual organizational norms. It provides a storage and organization solution that is both innovative and effective, allowing users to utilize their desktop real estate in an efficient and effective manner while ensuring all essentials are within arm’s reach.

Click Here to Buy Now: $169

What we like

  • Hangs off the edge, utilizing a frequently wasted space
  • Features a modular magnetic system that you can control by yourself

What we dislike

  • While sturdy, there is a cap to how much weight it can handle before becoming unstable, which could be a bummer

2. Grovemade’s Hardwood Cups and Planters

These cups, planters, and dishes are made the old-school way and are carved from solid maple or walnut. They are quite functional and utilitarian but aesthetically pleasing.

Why is it noteworthy?

The various pieces are hand-sanded and finished with a clear vegetable-based oil that highlights the natural warmth, elegance, and beauty of the wood. The collection includes cups, dishes and planters in a variety of different woods

What we like

  • Available in a variety of metal and material options, so you can pick and choose the one you want

What we dislike

  • Aesthetics are a bit unassuming and boring, and could have been worked upon a bit

3. The Hexcal Studio Desktop Organizer

Designed by British company Hexcal, the Hexcal Studio desktop organizer is created to be the ultimate desktop organizer and workspace accessory that you really need.

Why is it noteworthy?

It eliminates clutter, conceals wires, and offers shadowless lighting. It helps create a neat, tidy, and destressing workspace, where wires don’t create clutter, and where multiple screens can be installed to build a cohesive work environment.

What we like

  • Provides you with a wire-free desk
  • Equipped with an integrated shadowless light to reduce the strain caused on the eyes due to screen glare and direct lights

What we dislike

  • Bulky design that will occupy precious real estate on your desk

4. Effortless Standing Letter Cutter

When it comes to desk organization, every inch counts and it is essential to organize our desks in the most efficient and effective manner. And one important office tool in the arena of desk organization is a letter cutter, and we’ve found a cool letter cutter for you!

Why is it noteworthy?

This unique letter cutter reimagines a standard office tool. Not only does it efficiently slice through paper, but it also doubles up as a chic paperweight which ensures there is less clutter on your desk and more style. It elevates and declutters your desk aesthetic!

Click Here to Buy Now: $49

What we like

  • Precision cut ensures that no messy scraps are left behind
  • Doubles up as a paperweight, ensuring there is less clutter on your desk

What we dislike

  • While fantastic for standard envelopes, it is not versatile enough for those bulkier packages or intricate mail, which is inconvenient

5. Miklosi’s Organizer

This conceptual cable organizer is designed to untangle your cords and keep them organized something we deal with almost every day. The designer was inspired to create this product when he noticed that his cords usually get tangled up with lozenges! This inspired him to create a cable organizer that is similar to a pack of lozenges.

Why is it noteworthy?

Besides being inspired by lozenges, at first glance, the organizer looks more like LEGO pieces or bricks! You can place 2 cables on top of each other as if they’re placed in the same row, and there are 3 different types of organizers.

What we like

  • Three different versions so you can pick the one that suits your cable and space requirements

What we dislike

  • The organizer seems quite easy to lose and misplace

6. Quick-Access Organizer

In a world where we’re constantly running around, it is easy to lose your essentials, especially your keys. Called the Quick-Access Organizer, this minimal and well-designed organizer is created to perfectly organize all your essentials, without any fear of ever losing them.

Why is it noteworthy?

The Quick-Access Organizer isn’t simply a storage solution, it is a desk revolution. It utilizes magnetic wizardry to ensure that your essentials have an easily accessible space to be stored in. It merges form and functionality, creating an excellent 21st-century design philosophy.
Click Here to Buy Now: $69

What we like

  • Features a rotating mechanism that takes all the guesswork out of storage
  • It is not just a lid, but also a tray, featuring a unique dual functionality

What we dislike

  • Those who possess a larger array of items will find this organizer limiting
  • It can be concerning having magnets around certain electronic devices or cards, hence you need to be selective about what you store

7. Forest Tidy

Dubbed the Forest Tidy, these minimal and solid containers are crafted from rosewood, and they bring a whole new level of organization and neatness to your desk.

Why is it noteworthy?

It segregates your workspace into different categories,  hence giving you space for stationery, tech, EDC, cables, and even a dedicated stand for your monitor along with a stowaway space for your keyboard and mouse.

What we like

  • Available variety of shapes and sizes, tailor-made to your tabletop belongings
  • Equipped with a dedicated phone stand that lets you dock your phone either in portrait or landscape

What we dislike

  • Unfortunately, the phone stand doesn’t feature a channel for a cable pass-through, which means it won’t function as a charging stand

8. Cyl

Using the age-old stacking trick, Cyl is a unique desk organizer that frees up all the horizontal space on your desk and uses the vertical space that is often forgotten and ignored.

Why is it noteworthy?

The desk organizer is versatile, so you can place a variety of items within it. You can easily see what’s inside, and quickly retrieve them without having to unstack the ones above.

What we like

  • You can easily see what’s inside and quickly get them without unstacking
  • Organizers come in different sizes

What we dislike

  • No option to close the organizer when not in use

9. Grovemade Note-Taking Kit

Called the Grovemade Note-Taking Kit, this product is designed to help you effortlessly and efficiently capture, process, and store your notes, while ensuring that your notes are neatly placed and organized.

Why is it noteworthy?

This Note-Taking Kit includes a refillable notepad with dot grid paper and a solid metal base, supported by a display rail to hold and accommodate your notes and devices, creating an organized and well-designed working space.

What we like

  • Ensures that your workdesk is neat, helping you complete your important tasks first

What we dislike

  • Will consume a substantial amount of precious real estate on your desk

10. Smol Floppy Disk Organizer for Micro SD Cards

Independent artist Trevor Flowers has designed the “Smol Floppy Disk Organizer for Micro SD Cards”, and it is an adorable and quaint replica of the olden golden days. The little organizer can fit on any desk, owing to its near-microscopic size.

Why is it noteworthy?

This little design is perfect for old-school lovers, who collected a lot of floppy discs and kept their entire disc collection in beige old boxes. This is a fun trip down memory lanes for those who love a blast from the past!

What we like

  • Small compact design that can easily fit anywhere

What we dislike

  • Limited in supply, unsure whether we can get our hands on them
  • The small size may make the product super easy to misplace

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This tiny Micro SD card organizer is a blast from the 90s

Before CDs and DVDs revolutionized physical media in the 1990s, people mostly used floppy disks — little square pucks containing less than 2.8 megabytes of storage. If you collected a lot of floppy disks, for instance, the original release of DOOM (which released across four 3.5 inch floppy disks), you needed a place to put them. Back then, that meant keeping your disk collection in a whole bunch of beige boxes with tinted plastic coverings, locked shut with a simple mechanism.

Apparently, that design — despite its relative clunkiness and odd fit for modern offices — is nostalgic to collectors of modern physical media devices like Micro SD cards and Nintendo Switch cartridges, and, as a result, independent artist Trevor Flowers has designed his own tributes to the classic floppy disk holder design. Calling it the “Smol Floppy Disk Organizer for Micro SD Cards” on his Gumroad page, this adorable replica of days gone by can fit on any desk surface thanks to its near-microscopic size.

Designer: Trevor Flowers

“Back when floppies were new we kept them safe in somewhat terrible plastic bins,” says Flowers in the description of his Micro SD card holder.

“Now that micro SD cards can hold thousands of times more data they’re what we use and what we lose! Because, smol. So, here’s a little throwback to the floppy organizer but sized for micro SD cards. I used double-sided tape to stick mine to the top of my PC monitor because I’d lose it on my messy desk.”

The Smol Floppy Disk Organizer for Micro SD Cards is available to purchase on Flowers’ official Gumroad page for $22, though it seems like supplies are limited as only 37 units remain. The same is true of his Smol Floppy Disk Organizer for Switch Cartridges, of which only 8 remain as I write this article. It’s unclear whether more will be constructed, though it’s worth noting the build is quite cute and may even have mass-market appeal for collectors.

Smol Floppy Disk Organizers aren’t the only unique retro design Flowers has come up with. On his page, you can find other bespoke (and somewhat larger) tributes to the TRS-80 Model III and the Osborne One.

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