Poppin Sticky Memo Ball Review: Color-Code in Style

If a messy desk is simply a sign of genius, I mightiness beryllium 1 of nan smartest group retired there.

Everywhere I’ve worked, whether successful an agency aliases my ain house, I’ve begun pinch nan purest of intentions to support my table cleanable and clutter-free, only to measurement nan clip and power costs of perpetually putting things distant conscionable to propulsion them retired again nan adjacent day. Spoiler alert: Most of nan time, it isn’t worthy it. One of nan biggest, ahem, sticking points successful my decluttering process is nan sheer number of sticky notes I use. Classic Post-It marque notes, sticky notes shaped for illustration flowers, novelty pads, portion flags—all person a spot successful my agency proviso arsenal.

I constitute everything by hand, pinch a pen. And I mean everything. Not only successful my paper planner but besides connected nan sticky notes I person successful astir each room of my house. I person them successful nan kitchen, successful my nightstand, successful nan car. And I ever will, arsenic it’s been scientifically proven that penning things down boosts learning and memory, since penning by manus activates much wide-ranging connections successful nan brain.

I emotion my Notes app as overmuch arsenic anyone else, but if I type thing into it that I request to do successful nan future, I not only person to retrieve that I did truthful but besides dream I titled it pinch thing searchable. If I constitute it down connected a sticky note, I will not only remember, but I tin instrumentality it precisely wherever I cognize I’ll spot it. Doctor’s agency unexpectedly calling while I'm successful different room? Sticky note. Reminder for my hubby who’s still dormant and doesn’t person his telephone group to silent, truthful I can’t matter him? Sticky note. Sticky notes for my kid. Sticky notes for my friends. Sticky notes successful my car, successful my car shed … It's an infallible system.

However, nan worst offender of sticky statement detritus is by acold my workstation. If I person immoderate benignant of actionable instruction, whether it’s successful a meeting, an email, a Slack message, aliases via a telephone call, it’s instantly written down connected a sticky statement and slapped connected my planner or, if longer-range, pinned to nan wall supra my desk, which is lined pinch felt bulletin committee wall tiles from Amazon and presently looks for illustration nan pelt of a disappointing piñata.

However, I hadn’t really thought overmuch astir what those notepads were doing for my abstraction visually until I saw nan Poppin’ Sticky Memo Ball, nan 4.5-inch dodecahedron that looks thing for illustration a girly shot ball but is really a table ornament you tin put to use. This is nan sticky statement stack made into decor.

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The Sticky Memo Ball originated not successful a boardroom astatine 3M, nor successful nan brains of Romy and Michelle, but astatine Rochester Institute of Technology. Each year, nan STEM-focused schoolhouse holds a creation inaugural called Metaproject, pairing companies pinch RIT students to create products focusing connected nan taxable “Design Is One,” nan charismatic accuracy of nan school’s Vignelli Center for Design Studies. (Named successful grant of Italian designers Lella and Massimo Vignelli, nan second of whom is known for his modernist designs incorporating geometric shapes.)