{"id":995,"date":"2012-03-28T19:03:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T00:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/?p=995"},"modified":"2012-03-28T17:10:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T22:10:48","slug":"5-products-napo-conference-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/5-products-napo-conference-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Products from the NAPO Conference 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world abounds with organizing products. There are many products to choose from and the NAPO (National Association of Professional Organizers) expo is a great place to discover and play with these tools. As usual, products need to meet your specific needs \u2013 not all tools will be useful for everyone. Consider your own needs and style when evaluating these or any organizing products.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve chosen 5 products to briefly share with you; look in future months to see more in depth reviews.<\/p>\n

1.\tWallMates: self-adhesive dry erase planning surfaces from At-A-Glance. These come in various sizes and formats. The entire back is adhesive and they claim they stick to everything. I saw them sticking them to a carpet-covered pedestal repeatedly without problems.<\/p>\n

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At-A-Glance's WallMate's self-adhesive dry erase planning surface<\/p><\/div>\n

2.\tM by Staples Arc system: customizable notebook system.
\nThese are notebooks of 2 sizes with various accessories that you can easily rearrange and design for your personality and style. There\u2019s a special punch you can purchase to let you use any paper inside the notebook \u2013 mushroom shaped for the \u201ctear-out\u201d pages which you can easily put back in anywhere.<\/p>\n

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M by Staples Arc system, customizable notebook<\/p><\/div>\n

3.\tFile Case and Case Wrap from Smead.
\nA box for keeping file folders that comes with a case wrap for storage. These can replace hanging folders and fit in most file drawers. They are also decorative enough you could store them on a shelf and with the case wrap it won\u2019t even look like a filing system.<\/p>\n

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File Case and Case Wrap from Smead<\/p><\/div>\n

4.\tMini-cube systems with fabric drawers from ClosetMaid.
\nYou might be familiar with ClosetMaid cubeicals already \u2013 have you seen the mini-cube systems? There are currently 2 styles. There are fabric drawers to fit this mini-cube system with a wide variety of colors to choose from.<\/p>\n

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Mini-fabric drawer for a mini-cube system from ClosetMaid<\/p><\/div>\n

5.\tVarious adhesive tools from 3M.
\n– We\u2019re all familiar with Post-It\u2019s and now there\u2019s one with almost a full adhesive back. There are the familiar flags for marking pages.
\n– The filing tabs are interesting which can be written on and repositionable.
\n– There are some storage container label pads, even applying to canvas materials securely (as the advertising says).
\n– You\u2019re probably familiar with the Command hooks as well. It seems quite late, but I saw demonstrated how the adhesive works \u2013 they used a Plexiglas sheet in order to see both side of the application and removal. If removed properly it shouldn\u2019t leave any marks on the wall, no matter the material (they mentioned- with the possible exception of stucco walls). They\u2019ve also got Command strips for poster strips and picture hanging. Those picture-hanging strips are fascinating from the non-Velcro connection that is quite strong.<\/p>\n

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Variety of adhseive products from 3M<\/p><\/div>\n

These were by no means all the products that I played with during conference, simply ones I found worth sharing. I\u2019m excited to get a chance to get some hands on experience using these products and then sharing what I find with you over the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAPO conference is a great place to learn \u2013 both more thoughts on organizing and related skills as well as discovering new products and tools for being organized.<\/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":[3],"tags":[10,5,20,22,15,17],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organizing","tag-behavior","tag-household","tag-paperwork","tag-productivity","tag-resources","tag-spaces"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7p82c-g3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}