Cord Management Tips

my office and desk area nice and orderly, or it drives me up a wall. My desk is actually about a foot or so away from the wall. My desktop pc is behind the desk, as are all the cords. It may be a mess, but it’s somewhere I don’t have to see it.”Full Show Notes Here

good tip

real helpful video, thanks Chris!

good tip

real helpful video, thanks Chris!

I have most of my wires under my desk, all my computer and tv stuff are plugged into surge protectors :) I don’t have many plugins, 2 places in my room, both on each side of the door near the wall, a box of 4 of em, so yea, my computer takes up 3 (monitor computer speakers) wii takes one and tv takes one, all are on one protector XD

I have most of my wires under my desk, all my computer and tv stuff are plugged into surge protectors :) I don’t have many plugins, 2 places in my room, both on each side of the door near the wall, a box of 4 of em, so yea, my computer takes up 3 (monitor computer speakers) wii takes one and tv takes one, all are on one protector XD

I usually try to rig a vertical 4 foot or longer span behind the desk, with a large 3-4 inch hook or nail at the top and one or two large 3-4 inch diameter velcro loops half or 1/3rd way down the span… then run all the lengthy cables through this span before terminating them at the wall plug or device. this allows slack to passed over the nail/hook and taken up by gravity, and loosly held together by the velcro loops. the whole bundle is generally loose enough to trace and add and remove cables, and held together in an orderly fashion by the hook, loops, and gravity. can you picture it? similar systems are used between telco/server racks at data centers… meaning it works as well in a pro environemnt as at home.

My only addition would be to run your power cords seperately to your Network, USB cables etc to mimize the posibilty any noise pickup.

use velcro instead of zip ties, less stress on the cords and reusable.

Velcro!!! jesus why dident I think of that perfect!!

i know, i know… it’s a new thing :D

use velcro instead of zip ties, less stress on the cords and reusable.

Velcro!!! jesus why dident I think of that perfect!!

i know, i know… it’s a new thing :D

i dont know why people bother commenting to chris here. it’s not like he’s gonna look at it.

Chris has replied to ALL of m e-mails and mentioned my name on TWO videos(Information Overload and E Ya Later) and feartured me on ONE video (Information overload)

there might be a day when one of your videos is on there.
Just bear in mind there is ONE ChrisPirillo and a few hundred of use and a few thousand viewers
tha means Chris is quite busy

i dont know why people bother commenting to chris here. it’s not like he’s gonna look at it.

Chris has replied to ALL of m e-mails and mentioned my name on TWO videos(Information Overload and E Ya Later) and feartured me on ONE video (Information overload)

there might be a day when one of your videos is on there.
Just bear in mind there is ONE ChrisPirillo and a few hundred of use and a few thousand viewers
tha means Chris is quite busy

Yes, you can email him, but if you actually bothered to read the comment i said “commenting” and he never replies or probably even reads the comments here on youtube.

Yes, you can email him, but if you actually bothered to read the comment i said “commenting” and he never replies or probably even reads the comments here on youtube.

I have gotten in the habit of writing the items name and model on the side of the power brick. If they all were in a box, I could still find what each brick is used to power.

I just found that having things wireless is best. For example, rather than having a printer and several cables going to it, I bought a network printer that connects to my router and wirelessly to my mac, which is in another room, allowing me less cables out the back of the iMac. that extra £45 was more than worth it!