{"id":525,"date":"2011-07-20T19:03:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T00:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/?p=525"},"modified":"2011-07-20T18:51:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T23:51:06","slug":"cocoon-grid-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/cocoon-grid-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocoon Grid-It"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Overall Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_526\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It_xlarge.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-526\" class=\"size-full wp-image-526  \" title=\"Grid-It_xlarge\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It_xlarge.jpg?resize=280%2C280\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It_xlarge.jpg?w=400 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It_xlarge.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It_xlarge.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example of a Cocoon Grid-It<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Pros:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>versatile<\/li>\n<li>various sizes (and colors) depending on need\/want<\/li>\n<li>durable<\/li>\n<li>secure, the items really do stay in place<\/li>\n<li>fabulous for traveling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Cons:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>might not be the best for frequently used items<\/li>\n<li>sometimes specific Grid-Its are limited in longer elastic straps<\/li>\n<li>wish they had a tiny size for those small purse items!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Review:<\/h4>\n<p>In my newsletter almost a month ago, I shared a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/cocooninnovations#p\/u\/5\/sjdfPXdZSR8\">video<\/a> from the winner of the 2011 NAPO conference for Best Technology Product \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cocooninnovations.com\/grid.php\">Cocoon Grid-It<\/a>.\u00a0 This was definitely a hit with all the organizers at the conference \u2013 and long before the last day, the Grid-It\u2019s they were handing out were all gone! I was fortunate enough to pick one up and after my husband got a look at it, we bought more.\u00a0\u00a0 Need I say more?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I do.\u00a0 My first thought while I was at conference was that this is one of the few &#8220;male&#8221; styled tools for organizing.\u00a0 There&#8217;s the simply functional, the closet and shelving systems, but many smaller tools and supplies for staying organized are often pink or floral or otherwise quite feminine &#8211; these are almost more masculine.\u00a0 They do make a pink Grid-It in a number of the sizes, but otherwise the color options are black, gray, royal blue, or racing red.\u00a0 Unless you get one of their bags, since those come with their own Grid-It with some different accent colors.<\/p>\n<p>As I was first looking at them, I didn&#8217;t notice, the elastic bands are sewn in throughout the grid.\u00a0 This means that it controls how much it will move and will hold items in place more securely.\u00a0 Yet this isn&#8217;t obvious and the design is well done, it&#8217;s a fascinating crisscross of various sized elastic strips.\u00a0 These elastic strips are wide, also useful for holding the items in place.<\/p>\n<p>The smallest Grid-It offered is 7.67 x 4.5 x 0.375 while they&#8217;ve finally added the Grid-It wraps which can hold a computer in a pocket and has a neoprene wrap that keeps the device in the pocket and protects the items in the grid while it&#8217;s being moved around.\u00a0 Although the computer size is interesting, I find the iPad and e-reader size wraps to be the most intriguing.\u00a0 It could be a self-contained unit that is a grab and go; with everything you need right there.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but when I travel, I have so many cords that sometimes I stick them into a baggie or even, gasp, put them loose in one of the suitcases.\u00a0 I have now traveled with my cords and other items all neatly contained in my Grid-It.\u00a0 All the cords were neatly together and easy to access once we&#8217;d arrived.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_530\" style=\"width: 501px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It-Travel.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-530\" class=\"size-large wp-image-530  \" title=\"Grid-It-Travel\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It-Travel.jpg?resize=491%2C368\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It-Travel.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It-Travel.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It-Travel.jpg?resize=150%2C112 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It-Travel.jpg?resize=400%2C300 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It-Travel.jpg?w=1800 1800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It-Travel.jpg?w=1440 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Grid-It for traveling<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As I was playing with the ones I now have, I was considering what to put into it.\u00a0 Although there were tons of things that would fit, I didn&#8217;t want to use it for the frequently used items.\u00a0 My sunglasses live in a case, which sits well in my purse and is easy to access while I&#8217;m driving.\u00a0 Adding that to the Grid-It would just have made it more complicated to access.\u00a0 As with all organizing tools, sometimes it will work well and other times, it might not be for you.\u00a0 For me, I would love a tiny one, maybe 3 x 3 (or maybe even 4 x 4), for things like just the lip balm, nail file, pill case, etc. that would fit into a small pocket in my purse (I am not a fan of the little bags for that).<\/p>\n<p>I have one set up for working &#8211; you&#8217;ve probably seen it if I&#8217;ve come over &#8211; it has a notepad, some pens and a pencil, a nifty measuring tape, and a stack of my business cards.\u00a0 The Grid-It is sturdy enough that I can write on my notepad on the Grid-It.\u00a0 The back of this one has a zipper pocket, which easily holds standard papers folded in half.\u00a0 They also say the back of many of their Grid-It&#8217;s can be used as a mouse pad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_534\" style=\"width: 501px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It-SO2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-534\" class=\"size-large wp-image-534  \" title=\"Grid-It-SO\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It-SO2.jpg?resize=491%2C369\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It-SO2.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It-SO2.jpg?resize=300%2C224 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It-SO2.jpg?resize=150%2C112 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It-SO2.jpg?resize=400%2C300 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It-SO2.jpg?w=1440 1440w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Grid-It-SO2.jpg?w=2160 2160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Grid-It for working with clients<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Overall, this is a great product, which can fill many different needs.\u00a0 As long as you consider your needs and decide this can meet them. (I think this way about all organizing tools!). It&#8217;s wonderful to see an organizing product that can fulfill so many potential needs.\u00a0 I also saw as I was getting the links for this post that if you buy a Grid-It this month (July), they will donate part of their proceeds to The Wounded Warrior Project in honor of our veterans &#8211; of which I do work with a couple of. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>As usual, this is written as unbiased as possible, without compensation, and simply because I&#8217;ve now used it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nifty product, discovered at the NAPO 2011 conference \u2013 and finally a great product for men who want to have cool organizing tools, although women like it too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[10,8,5,25,22,15,17],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-behavior","tag-discipline","tag-household","tag-postaweek2011","tag-productivity","tag-resources","tag-spaces"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7p82c-8t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}