Best Results Organizing

We often carry our must-do information with us, whether in planning binders or smart gadgets. But when we’re at home or in our offices, we need information to catch our attention even when we haven’t thought to go look for it. Instead of our eyeballs going in search of our lists, our lists have to place themselves (with our help) in our eye lines. That’s what our vertical space is all about.

Over the years, we’ve discussed some nifty options for keeping information (schedules, tasks, etc.) in front of our eyeballs without adding to the clutter. Take a peek back in time at:

Paper Doll Sees the Writing on the Wall: Part One — Dazzling With Dry Erase

Paper Doll Sees the Writing on the Wall: Part Two — Chalking It Up

Paper Doll Looks at the Big Picture: Wall Calendars, Planners and Reminders

Paper Doll Says “Stick ‘Em Up” To Stay Organized

We talked about At-A-Glance WallMates™, Idea Paint, Wink (Walls Love Ink), WallPops, and all varieties of chalkboard paint. We got a good sense of how time can be better managed vertically, with calendars and task reminders like NeuYear‘s Seize the Year calendars, Mead’s Organizher line of write-and-wipe items, and PlanetSafe’s Dry Erase Planners. And we saw how some free-form wall stickers, like RE:writes and Martha Stewart Home Office with Avery Adhesive Dry Erase Decals (on opposite ends of the marketing-power continuum), offered options for turning your walls into organizing tools.

Today, we have a new star in the constellation of products that help you keep information up, up and away.

Three by Three, a Seattle-based company, has created a series of space-saving, vertically-arrayed information-bearing products that make Paper Doll almost giddy with delight. Three by Three has designed dry-erase boards and whiteboards using a variety of hearty materials: bamboo, glass, silicone, stainless steel, magnetic elements and more.

The product line that first caught my eye was Stick-It!, featured at the ever-cool Shoebox Dwelling blog, and certainly, the smaller your surroundings (whether at home or at work), the more important it is to keep useful information accessible without wasting minimally-available horizontal space.

Stick-It! products are silicone organizers. Unlike the vast majority of wall-affixed planners and decals, these silicone organizers require no adhesive, no magnets, and no hardware! This means that the Three by Three products are removable, reusable, and won’t scratch or damage your surfaces.

You can attach Three by Three’s silicone, daily, weekly and monthly dry-erase planners to practically any smooth surface, making them equally useful on mirrors in the bathroom (to remind kids of their chores), metal middle-school locker doors (to keep on top of tests and extracurriculars), kitchen (or dorm room) refrigerators (to know who is supposed to be doing what, where), windows and yes, even walls.

Stick-It! Silicone Dry Erase Monthly Planner

The white monthly planner measures 14″ x 9″ and sells for $13.

Stick-It! Silicone Dry Erase Weekly Planner

The 14″ x 3.5″ weekly planner comes in white or spring green, and is available in vertical and horizontal formats. You can also post multiple weekly Stick-It!s side-by-side or “stacked” on your vertical surfaces to give you more visible planning space than on the monthly calendar. They’re priced at $9.

Stick-It! Silicone To-Do Board

Three By Three rounds out the Stick-It! line with a 5″ x 9″ daily/ongoing to-do board that’s lined, so you don’t end up accidentally writing your tasks on an ever-decreasing diagonal angle. (What? Only Paper Doll has trouble writing long lists without a lined surface? Never mind!)

The Stick-It! Silicone To-Do Board has two small hooks embedded at the bottom so that you can keep track of your keys, ID key-card, conference badge lanyard, etc. It sells for $8.

Speaking of conference badges, I think these silicone planners would be particularly useful for business travelers. While family vacations can be free-form, business travel requires careful attention to detail at the very point when you’re likely to be jet-lagged and out of sorts. Pop a weekly version of the silicone Stick-It! in your carry-on and it’s ready to be posted on your hotel room’s bathroom mirror, the back of the door or on the wall above the TV, making it less likely you’ll forget your must-remember tasks until you hit the lobby, the taxi, or the negotiating table.

Stick-It! Silicone Sticky Pads

Finally, the line includes some fun add-ons: small double-sided silicone sticky pads that hold small notes, tiny supplies, stamps and other lightweight items. The sticky pads come in packs of six .8″, 1.2″ and 1.6″ “dots” and are available in white, black, and multicolored (white, black, blue, spring green, pink, and red) selections for $7 per package.

As I noted above, Three by Three’s product range goes far beyond these flexible, silicone boards, and I anticipate we’ll be looking at items like their bamboo channel+panel planner, colorful and magnetic glass planners, and dry-erase stainless entry butler in the future. For now, though, let’s explore all the ways we might use sturdy vertical planning products that require no mounting, no holes in the wall, and no sticky residue left behind. These silicone Stick-It! items seem pretty organized on that point! Please share your ideas below.