14 Must-Have Desk Accessories for Productivity and Fun

hey everyone in this video I want to talk about 14 of my favorite desk accessories and these range from some

very productive ones like this back here to some much more fun light-hearted ones like this right here and so no matter

what you're using your desk for whether that is for work for school for productivity like at home maybe doing

online shopping or whatever budget management or maybe even just gaming whatever you use your desk for there

should be something in this video that is either great for you to buy for yourself and just make your desk a

little bit better or potentially a great gift for somebody else who uses their desk Des a lot so these are things that

I really like that I use on a daily basis and I hope you enjoy them as well now there are 14 different desk

accessories before we get into number 14 quick little disclosure here it's kind of a healthy mix in this video of

products that I purchased with my own money some of them I made like with a 3D printer for example and some of them

were sent to me for previous videos for free but there's no obligation to those Brands and they don't have access to

this video before it goes live there is however one sponsored item we'll talk about the sponsor later on in the video

but all the rest are completely un sponsored so with that being said let's get into number 14 here this is none

other than the stream deck even though the name really implies is meant for creators streaming online it's actually

very useful for basically anybody out there so quick little summary of what it is essentially it is just a macro

keyboard that is completely customizable so you have eight buttons on the top one little touch screen in the middle you

can swipe back and forth on and four dials on the bottom so by default if you press like the top left button it'll go

into your apps and you can have this open like the calculator app or you can go into the software on your desktop and

change that to open a bunch of like Chrome tabs or or you know Excel or whatever you're using a lot so if you're

somebody that uses Microsoft Office and that whole Suite A Lot maybe you program the buttons to open that if you do a lot

of video editing maybe it's going to be some useful tools while you're in Adobe Premiere Pro for example or whatever

you're doing this is essentially just a macro keyboard that's super customizable that allows you to just access more and

open some automations without having to type onto your keyboard uh and open them manually or go into like your

applications folder and stuff like that and you can take this as far as you want with customizations uh I've seen people

use this to open a bunch of different Chrome tabs for like Investments for example so they have all their different

investment research tabs they can look at different stocks and stuff like that just an easier way to get your workflow

streamlined with just a nice little aesthetic array of buttons here and the buttons as you can see on the top

actually have little displays in the back as well so they'll change for the right icons based on what you're open or

what you choose those icons to be in the software now number 13 then something completely different much less

productive but honestly how could I not include this of course a doodle bob I 3D printed this one you can find a lot of

3D models for this you could probably buy this as well but this is not just any doodle bob this doodle bob holds my

pen this actually holds either like an apple pencil for example or just a regular pen kind of a fun little desk

accessory that I don't know people come over to my desk and and they kind of always comment on that it's just such a

cool thing to have now getting back to something very productive we're kind of alternating between fun and aesthetic

and you know highly productive desk devices number 12 here is none other than the cow digigit ts4 Hub I've tried

so many different hubs or dongles to plug in more things to my laptop or my desktop or you know my PC whatever I'm

using I find that most of them out there just absolutely suck they're terrible you can plug in like one flash drive and

then as soon as you plug in HDMI uh like it bugs you it really just bugs out like it gets really slow the display doesn't

really work well and uh they never work as well as they're advertised but this the Cal digit Works incredibly well so

I'm able to show up with just my MacBook plug in just one USBC cable and instantly be connected to my display

here all of my hard drives my audio output my SD cards anything plugged into here and nothing is slow at all it's

absolutely incredible how functional and fast this thing really is I mean it's not that surprising looking at it like

you can tell it's really well built you know all solid aluminum as you can look at this uh and like I said it works

really well it also delivers power to my laptop so I can plug in again with just one cable and be ready to go and then

number 11 I think a desk mat is absolutely essential to a desk this is really a great desk accessory in my

opinion and there are of course many different options out there but as long as you have something that gives you a

nice grip on the table so it's not sliding around too much it's very comfortable easy to clean uh and in my

opinion the best way to do that also looks really nice as well is a leather one uh this one was sent to me from

Harbor London like 2 years ago and I've been using it for a while I actually really do like this deskmat a lot um

I'll have some links down below to all the products in this video some of them are harder to find uh so some of those

will be affiliate links some of them might just be whatever links I can find out there um but regardless this is a

you know pretty solid gift it's a little bit more expensive I think it's like $7 or $80 right now uh but if you wanted to

go out and just buy like a cheaper one there's so many different desk mats but that is a solid gift idea and a really

solid thing to get to upgrade your desk setup and before we get into the weird plant thing I have we need to get into

number 10 which is the display I'm using for this desk setup right here which is the sponsor of today's video which is LG

this is the LG my view ultrawide smart Monitor and I've been trying this out as an ultrawide monitor for a little while

now and I have to say it's really quite impressive how much more you're able to show on One display in really multitask

I used to just have like half and half screens or or sometimes use like just a full screen like on my laptop for

example but here I'm able to put them like thirds or even quarters on the display to have more shown on one screen

also media is incred inedibly immersive on such a large curved display and this is something I find especially

interesting because you know I'll be editing a video and then when I want to export the video I'll just let my laptop

you know go through that export and I don't want to like overload my laptop by opening more tabs and doing more stuff

that's more demanding so I'll just switch over the monitor to the smart monitor mode and you can watch Netflix

on here you can watch YouTube on here like it's basically a TV when it's not being used as a monitor it's kind of

cool to have multiple functions on one device here and it's really quite a simple elegant design so you have all

your controls on the very bottom as well as a remote right here that you can control the entire monitor like that

there's different color profiles there's sound output on here uh there's multiple inputs on the back from HDMI or USB and

of course it's a smart monitor like I said so it does connect to Wi-Fi to uh you know to play music or videos or

whatever you're looking for there so thanks to LG for sponsoring this portion of the video uh they are running a Black

Friday promotion I'll have that linked in the top of the description down below so if you want to buy the LG my view

ultrawide smart monitor check out that link down below and again thanks to LG for sponsoring this portion of the video

so moving on to number nine this is something I included in my gift guide as well I'm sitting right now at my desk

right but I like having a sit stand desk so I have a separate desk that I'll stand at a lot and uh when you're

standing you don't want to just like wear shoes you don't want to just stand on like a hardwood floor obviously

you're just a maniac if you're doing that so what I like to use is a rubber floor mat so it's actually meant for

standing it's really nice got little bumps on there you can like massage your foot and kind of you know shift your

weight around it's far more comfortable to stand for really long periods of time I personally do that a lot when you know

I have meetings for example I find that if I'm standing for a meeting I'm much more awake much more attentive and way

less likely to like fall asleep during the meeting but going on to number eight and number seven these are both going to

be more like a ergonomic type things the next one is a laptop stand this one I mean I've tried a lot of laptop stands

if you like one that's smaller and folds up out of like you know cardboard or whatever go for it like you know by all

means that's nice cuz it's lightweight uh but this one is more heavyduty it's one that I really like and uh it's made

of all aluminum this is the minder laptop stand I could be it might be minder minder I don't know I haven't

really ordered anything else from them but I like this stand a lot it's adjustable in the height adjustable in

the angle and it has a little phone stand on the very bottom so if you have like a folding phone or just any phone

you want to watch the media down there under your laptop very easy to set that down there I find this is great uh again

not only for standing desk but also sitting desk just to have my display kind of matching the same height as my

monitor so that you know it kind of is one continuous display there it's easier to kind of move tabs back and forth and

make some use out of my laptop when it's plugged into a monitor number seven is a MAG safe stand if you have an iPhone if

you don't then I would recommend getting a MAG safe case for your Android so you could use a MAG safe stand this one

unfortunately anchor discontinued but this is the mag go and they have a new one that's essentially replacing this

I'll link the new one in the description although there is one small difference so essentially you just have a stand

that you can just drop your iPhone onto it sticks magnetically it charges all day you can see the time or you can turn

your phone sideways and that'll put it into like uh the standby mode essentially showing you like an alarm CL

it'll just show you the time of day and maybe another widget if you have the weather or something like that um but

the new version of this is basically just a charger the old version you could pull it up and it was like a battery

pack on the back um I assume the battery wouldn't last as long if you leave it plugged in Forever which is probably why

they discontinued this but I always thought it was helpful just in case it's like oh my iPhone's almost dead I have

to go on a road trip I'll just grab this and I just know it's always fully charged that's a cool desk accessory uh

anchor is a little bit more expensive honestly I think they're pretty reasonably priced for what they are but

if you want want to find a cheaper one sometimes ug green is a little bit more affordable I know they have some similar

ones or to be honest if you just really want to save some money uh in the past I have just 3D printed these if you have a

printer and then just buy a little mag safe Puck uh glue it on there and you have you know a a homemade mag safe

stand you can make exactly the height you can make it exactly the height and the dimensions that match your desk as

well as the color that matches your desk too number six this is a cool little speaker I mean obviously depending on

what your audio style is you might want some wired speakers for higher fidelity maybe you want two speakers for some

stereo sound uh I think this is great cuz it has a smaller footprint and also has a cool trick up his sleeve this is

the LG xbom 360 speaker um and so 360 it's going to sound a little better in like a larger room so you hear it from

any angle pretty much but if I turn it on oh the battery's dead but if I turn this on it has 360 lights around the top

you can change the color of that and so it acts as like a nice little ambient lamp I think that's really cool on here

or if you're playing music kind of brings it to life a little bit with some flashing colors I mean a little bit of

RGB always makes a desk a little bit more fun and a little bit more exciting in my opinion number five and number

four I know a lot of keyboard and mouse people are going to be very upset with me but hear me out in this one I am not

a big fan of like the big flat mechanical keys I'm not a fan of really flat ones either in fact what I've

really started using in the past is an ergo keyboard uh because I find that it's way more comfortable and I can

still type incredibly quickly using this right here we have the Logitech Ergo k860 that is the keyboard here and at

first like it is really weird it's going to take you some time to get used to this but I mean ask ask any doctor out

there you would never find a doctor that doesn't recommend an ergo keyboard I had like a wrist problem a couple years ago

that's when I bought this I got used to it and uh yeah I can type faster on this now than I can on a regular keyboard I

really like using this a lot and then the mouse I just got this because it has like the ball on there which has a huge

benefit if your desk ever gets messy you don't need space to slide your mouse around instead the ball like you can

scroll really quickly using just your thumb on here and this is the Logitech Ergo m575 Mouse and again having

multiple buttons on here so your index finger to go you know forward or back if you're navigating tabs on Chrome for

example uh the wheel super easy you don't have to slide anything around makes your desk setup also like much

cleaner to not have space that your mouse is always sliding back and forth It's quieter super easy to use I

absolutely love I could never go back from like having the ball on the thumb for the mouse but like I said I know a

lot of people are more into like the Retro keyboards or different Aesthetics of keyboards I wish this looked

different but it's kind of the only great Ergo keyboard and mouse from my experience uh that works with mac and

works really well number three this is for anyone like me that doesn't drink coffee incredibly fast like if I chug a

coffee I'm just going to be so jittery and so anxious I would rather like sit my coffee over you know an hour or so

but I don't want it to get ice cold so this right here is the amember mug that heats your coffee keeps it hot and it

has a little little pad right here so it doesn't it's not just like a regular hot pad that's going to you know burn your

house down instead you can see there's a connection right there uh two Pogo pins and two concentric rings in the bottom

so you set it like that and the mug itself is going to heat your your coffee not this little pad on the bottom so way

less likely to catch on fire if you like drop a paper on it for example and also just like a much cooler piece of tech

that gives you like a very solid sturdy feeling mug that additionally makes it much harder to tip this over because you

have that extra weight on the bottom so not that I'm one to knock things over like like I'm usually pretty coordinated

I don't like knock over water on my desk a lot um but if you do that extra weight on the bottom could make a pretty big

difference for you and I just think it looks nice like a nice minimal clean matte black mug there that matches the

Puck on the bottom it's plugged in on the back with a pin and Barrel right there I don't know like I I really like

that a lot that is the Ember mug uh that you know can heat your coffee your tea your water whatever you're drinking at

your desk moving on to number two this is one that you can finally do on Windows and Android now but originally

it was just Mac and the iPhone and this is a continuity camera mount so this is something you could buy for about $15 on

Amazon you can also just kind of build one if you wanted to uh or you could 3D print one uh as I have done here and

this is going to be a great way to use your iPhone or you know your Samsung Galaxy s24 Ultra for example behind your

desktop behind your laptop on a video call so rather than just having like a lowquality webcam or even like a high

quality webcam which still is not as good as a phone you can use the rear cameras on your phone to get honestly

the best video quality imaginable for a webcam uh short of you know plugging in like a DSLR for example but you know by

all intensive purposes this is the cheapest and the easiest way to get great video quality on your video calls

and it's something I do all the time and such a cool little desk accessory that surprisingly few people actually have

and then number one I said that I really like this little plant pot this is something I mentioned in my gift guide

recently it's such a cool little device that just adds a little touch of like magic to your desk kind of it looks

really cool like this plant just has no business levitating above the table but it does and that's so cool and the way

it works of course is with some electromagnets inside uh and so when it's levitating there you can spin it uh

you could obviously have a plant in it as I would recommend or you could just have like a dollar bill in there or

whatever you want to set in there something pretty light so it's able to Lev at like that but just kind of a cool

little Lively thing to have on your desk there are several different versions of this you can find them on Amazon there's

like you know matte black ones white ones kind of a light wooden bamboo looking one uh but any you know any

style that matches your desk I think this is a really cool idea to have either at your own desk or like it's a

pretty solid gift for anyone who doesn't already have one like I don't know anyone who wouldn't think this is a

really cool thing to have on their desk just a fun little fidget thing like you spin it you look at it I don't know it's

cool it's a fun thing to have on a desk so those are my 14 favorite desk accessories let me know in the comments

down below what your favorites are I'm sure there are a ton that you like that I probably have not mentioned in this

video but if you watch the video this long hopefully that means you enjoyed it and I recommend subscribing I have some

other videos like my gift guide and a few others coming out soon uh that you might find interesting just like this

video I'll link those I'll I'll link those I'll link those over here so you can watch those next thanks for watching

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