Multi-input desk monitor
Desk display that takes a computer over USB-C and a console over HDMI
More than one video input on a single screen, with a switch that cycles between them. USB-C carries picture and power down one cable to a laptop or a tablet. HDMI takes the console. Press the switch and the desk swaps between work and a game, with nothing unplugged and no move to another room. Against an Apple display the trade is usually brightness, speaker quality and the loss of keyboard brightness controls.
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- Federico ViticciDoes it
Apple writer · founder of MacStories
Rebuilt his desk around one display that takes USB-C from the iPad and HDMI from a console, with a button on the back that cycles the inputs. Finding a monitor that would do both was, he writes, one of the two things that had stopped him using the iPad for everything.
Source: MacStories: iPad Pro for Everything
Aimed at the same thing
Other entries filed under productivity or focus.
- Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.On record from 6 of 62 tracked people: 6 do it
- Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Standing desk
A desk that raises, so part of the working day happens on your feet
On record from 4 of 62 tracked people: 3 do it, 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 3 do it
- Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Paper notebook
A bound notebook for thinking on paper away from a screen
On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 3 do it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Phone lockbox
A lockable box with a timer that puts the phone out of reach for a set period
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it - Gear$$$Expensive: Several hundred dollars and up.On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
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