(Part 2) Best dry erase boards according to redditors
We found 135 Reddit comments discussing the best dry erase boards. We ranked the 80 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Yep, custom inventory boards.
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If you're interested, they are these dry-erase boards, which are quite cheap, this image, printed at 100% width on 11x17 paper and laminated (I got mine done for about $4/sheet), and the items are from this Dry-erase magnetic sheet, cut to size.
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Trim the laminated paper to size, slightly bigger than the writing surface of the board, and you can slide it under the lip of the frame, snug and secure. Magnetic sheet is cut to different sizes for different size items, 1-4 squares large. They're magnetic and will stick to the board through the laminated paper.
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When a player picks up an item, they ask how big it is. I tell them, and give them an appropriate sized square. They than label it how they want, with text, pictures, whatever. They can also mark up the laminated paper. I highly recommend Wet Erase markers, rather than Dry erase.
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Physical Inventory rules are found here.
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Enjoy!
If it was me, I'd go for a [simple](http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60152340/] and large dining table. The girlfriend loves these kinds of tables because they can be used with a combination of chairs and benches. Nothing fancy or custom, as easily used for seating people for barbeques (assuming your basement opens up to your yard) as it is for gaming. IMO, having cutouts and cup holders is really limiting and can occasionally get in the way of your gaming needs.
Instead go for simple add-ons like a lazy susan. If you're worried about rings or condensation ruining the table/game pieces, large coasters are always reliable. For food, serving trays are always good, as are TV trays.
If you need a large surface with a grid like nerdbloggerwil linked to, it should be easy enough to mount a pane of plexiglass onto a wooden frame. You can also get plain, unfinished slabs of whiteboard from hardware stores and make whatever marks you need on them. Keep them off to the side and whip them out as needed.
Depending on how you wanted to set up the space, I love this style of bookcase as a room divider. You can use them to wall in a more intimate (or perhaps more intense) gaming space while showing off your collection to either side of the room. A more traditional sideboard is great too, as the top can function as a bar. ! As I was searching for a minibar to link, I saw this which totally works for both game storage and drinks storage.
A whiteboard was really useful for me. You can put a small one, like this on your door to write notes to suitemates or rules if you have those, keep it to yourself for reminders, etc. Or if they're a stem person these are enormously useful for working on problems - just stick it on your wall
On amazon for what it’s worth.
Athlon Optics , Midas BTR , Riflescope , 4.5-27 x 50 Second Focal Plane (SFP) 30 mm Tube, Illuminated APLR1 MIL Reticle , https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01APT06Q8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_4BCTDbTD8MVF8
Honestly if I were you I’d save a few hundred more and get an FFP
I haven't tried it, but every time I use cardboard, I think about something like this. You can erase the layout when the job is done and reuse on the next, and make notes as you come across evermore damage that the customer didn't tell you about that-needs-a-very-specific-oem-part-with-no-p/n-from-^acompanythatnolongerexists.
Yeah, eeeeevery time.
Rig up a magnetic board! A lot of people already superglue washers to the bottom of their ship bases to give them weight, so instead just glue magnets to the bottoms. Get a magnetic whiteboard like this one with a stand, and park that near your bed.
Go for your 'board on a bed' solution for keeping your cards, dice (dice tray would be helpful), movement dials, etc., and then have your friend you're playing against move the ships around on the whiteboard.
(As a bonus, you could even insist your friend draw green and red laser blasts on the board whenever someone attacks.)
My (non-ADHD) partner was beyond stressed out with me. He even broke off our engagement because he couldn't imagine life with someone who doesn't do anything around the house (He never talked to me about it before he broke it off - we talked it over and we're still together. TALKING IS IMPORTANT!!!)
After I realized how much my ADHD was affecting my home life, he and I agreed to start a weekly chore list - things that need to be done throughout out the week that I have a tendency to miss (which led to frustration for him when he felt he was doing it all). We check off items on the list we completed in our own different colors to keep track of who did what. And so I can try to make sure he's not doing disproportionately more than me.
Write down things that have to be done every week, and spread them around different days of the week to keep it from being a single exhausting marathon. Things like "Vacuum bedroom" force you to clear up the clutter on the floor, or "Sort your mail" a couple of times a week helps keep it from piling up for me.
We used this magnetic weekly calendar, and so far it's been a god-send!
I know having kids definitely puts a huge, unpredictable additional workload on you two, but having a schedule like this might everything you can control from piling up. Good luck!!
Just some ideas from someone who finished college not too long ago (All gifts from Amazon).
If you know for a fact you'll be playing multiplayer, bring a small white dry-erase board with you, plus enough markers for however many people will be playing. The convenience will blow your mind.
If you have the money, get a battle mat and some dry erase markers. Also, grab some of these eraser sponges to make cleaning the mat off at the end of the night super easy.
If for some reason you can't get one of those, you can also get a dry erase whiteboard and use a ruler and a knife to score a grid into it, and then just rub black dry erase marker over the grid. The black powdered ink will get stuck in the grooves and turn into a grid. You can then use it like any other battle mat (just won't be able to roll it up when you're done). Takes some time and work, but if you already have a big whiteboard you're not using you can save yourself $30.
I found one of these on clearance at Target around the end of school shopping season and bought it on a whim. It’s worked out great! A little pricier than the DIY solutions, but definitely movable and mine has held up well.
Viz-Pro Dry Erase Board, 40 x 30 inches, Silver, Aluminium Frame WB4030L https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CXYOI76/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_ft-yzb1NRRA0G
There are some calendar ones too if that's more your thing
a white board calendar with checklist is all you need. if you want to track who does what, just use different colours. https://www.amazon.com/Quartet-Erase-Calendar-Magnetic-44202-WT/dp/B018IU9UTU
I could really use this whiteboard to put next to my desk instead of the piece of paper taped to the wall I currently have haha. Thank you!
I taught myself numbers in Chinese by writing them on my calendar in place of Arabic numbers. (I have a perpetual calendar - highly recommend!) I used the characters for a couple of months, then the pinyin for a couple of months. With no additional effort, just checking the date every day, I learned the numbers really effectively. Chinese numbers are so simple that I was able to keep going past 31, so the calendar method didn't limit me that way.
For a good in-person interview setup, I'd recommend three cameras: one dedicated to you, one of the interviewee, and one that captures both of you. You can get away with just one (if that's all you have) that features both you and the interviewee, but that would make for a less dynamic video. Also, you phone on a tripod would work just fine if you don't want to spend any extra money.
As for syncing the audio and the video, all you need to do it use a clapper board. Just start recording the audio and video, use the board to make a loud noise, then line up the audio to the video during editing. If you can't afford a clapper board, just making a loud clap with your hands can suffice.
I hope this helps!
(had to split this into 2 parts)
PART 1
So you're struggling with taking forever to make decisions, and then probably second guessing yourself whenever you do make a choice.
Boy have I been there. My family used to want to murder me for how long I would take to pick a movie to rent at Blockbuster when I was a kid.
And I carried that trait with me for a long time. I was the kind of person who would read EVERY Amazon review of every thing I wanted to buy and then cross reference ten different websites just trying to pick out a freaking rice cooker.
Another thing you mentioned is how you kick yourself for not spending your free time working on your passion projects but then when that time comes, you just waste it away on video games, Netflix, Youtube, Reddit, etc.
Been there too! Love it! Hate it! Hate myself! Love the shows!
So what can you do?
I'm going to throw a lot of information at you at once here. What I want you to do is take each section and work on it for 2 weeks before moving onto the next one. TRUST ME. Taking thing slow is so much better than trying to fix everything at once. Imagine if you had just written 1 page a day for the past year. You'd have a damn book. But are you going to stop what you're doing right now and write 1 page? No. Why not? Because you haven't created that habit yet. You're thinking "big fucking deal, one page. One page gets me nowhere". TRUE. But one page a day 365 days in a row gets you Harry Potter.
(insert image of that guy tapping his head with that "Uh huh, ain't I smart" face)
So remember, take this slow. Work on each thing for 2 weeks before moving on.
FIRST, the set up. Go to Amazon and invest in this $15 dry erase board. Got a little extra money? Then buy a 4 foot by 3 foot board. It'll make things easier. (But if you're not buying the one I'm linking to then you only have 5 minutes to find a board and buy it. Start a timer now)
https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Markes-Assorted-Colors-Fridge/dp/B0186B46CM/ref=sr_1_5?s=office-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1523593206&sr=1-5&keywords=dry+erase+board
This board is going to be your tracking system. You're gonna draw a calendar on there and you'll number the days (starting with today or whenever you get the board) and you're going to start making a check on the days when you complete your habit. At the end of each 14 day challenge you'll just write down how many out of 14 you got.
Each cycle (2 weeks) you'll try to do better and better. So if the first cycle you get 4 out of 14 checks, next cycle try to get 8 out of 14 (Here's a little secret, you'll probably be hitting 14 out of 14 by the end of the month.)
Simple as that. Now lets begin with the tasks. I'm just gonna target each thing you mentioned in your comment. Feel free to take what I saw and cater it to your needs because you know you better than I do.
PART 1: STOP AGONIZING OVER DECISIONS: Ever hear of analysis paralysis? Google that shit. You got it. Choices suck. We have way too many choices in our world today. It fucking wrecks us. Too many mates to choose from, too many apples to choose, too many movies, too many shoes, too many shampoos!
Here is what is going on in your head: You are afraid of making a bad choice and then regretting it. Okay, that's a fair thing to be afraid of. BUUUUUUT you have made a critical error in your logic. How many choices a day are you making that are going to TOTALLY ruin your life if you make the wrong choice. Not very many. Those kinds of choices don't come along very often, pretty much never (unless you decide to drive a motorcycle through a corn field backwards while naked with a pound of C4 strapped to your head and a bottle of prune juice in your stomach).
But you're treating all of these decisions in your life like they're important. How many of these tough decisions that you've had to make in the past year do you even remember? Probably not very many.
So what can you do?
First, understand this. And I mean REALLY understand it. Most of your choices don't really matter. Maybe you go to this restaurant, maybe you go to that one. Doesn't really matter does it. Maybe you get these shoes, maybe you get these. Who cares. Maybe you go to this party, maybe you go to that party. Stop wasting your time WORRYING ABOUT THE FUTURE OF YOUR CHOICE and just make the choice. Literally set a timer on your phone for like 2 minutes and make a choice by then.
Trust your gut. Your intestines have neurons in them just like your brain and so your gut actually does a little bit of thinking (no joke, its' weird) and so when people say "go with your gut" that's not just a saying. Your instincts are a lot better than you think.
Just practice for a few weeks making fast choices. BOOM! Just do it. Bam! Do it and no turning back. I recently went through this when I was deciding on a pair of boots to buy. Did I want to buy these or these? These have this kind of leather but these have this. These have this color but this one has this. Will this look good with jeans? Can I wear these at a party? WHO GIVES A FUCK. They're boots. Buy the fucking boots and wear them and if you don't like them then buy another pair. Fuck all the wasting time thinking about it.
SO HERE'S YOUR ASSIGNMENT: Every day I want you to practice making a fast decision and then just going with it. Don't think about what could have been. Just go with it. A good way to practice is by deciding what you're going to eat for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Just make a fast choice.
If you happen to get to a tougher decision, pull out your phone and set a time for 2 minutes. Make your choice by then and then decide to live with it for the rest of your life.
Do this for 2 weeks.
TWO WEEKS LATER
Okay, onto number two.
PART 2 - You mention wanting to get shit done but then not getting shit done and playing video games, but then feeling guilty for playing the video games.
What is happening here is a tale as old as time. You know it as well as I do. SO I'm just gonna get to how to fix it.
It's all about scheduling. You have to schedule when you're going to work and when you're going to play. And then work when it's time to work and play when it's time to play.
Do you know how fucking great it feels to have time scheduled to do whatever the hell you want with absolutely no guilt? Because you know that you've done what you needed to do and now is LITERAL TIME TO PLAY.
It's fantastic.
So how do you do it?
Just start blocking on 1 hour a day to do the thing you want to do (writing, programming, dancing, whatever it is). Then block out 1 hour a day to play. Easy as that.
Get your shit done first (in the morning if you can) and then schedule 1 hour later to do WHATEVER YOU WANT. But make sure that during that 1 hour you don't let any thoughts of guilt or anything creep in.
Do this for two weeks. Write down on a sheet of paper a weekly schedule but only schedule those 2 hours. The rest are for whatever. BUT KEEP THOSE 2 HOURS SACRED AS IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT (in the advance course you would eventually get to a point where you're doing 4 hours a day of your deep career work and then the rest of the day you can schedule whatever the hell you want. Your brain can really only SUPER FOCUS for about 4 good hours. After that it's kinda frazzled so you might as well let it rest and absorb fun and games and movies and books and sexy people)
TWO WEEKS LATER
Part 3: Write!
Now we're gonna have some fun. This one is super simple. For the next two weeks this will be your morning routine. You'll wake up, get out of bed, pee, brush your teeth, sit down at a table and drink some water/coffee. And then you'll set a timer and you will write by hand for 10 minutes. That's it! That's all you gotta do! BUT the thing is, you have to write non stop. DO NOT STOP WRITING. Do it for ten minutes. What are you gonna write about? Whatever the fuck you want. The goal here isn't to write anything good, the goal here is just to write and to get your brain unblocked and flowing onto the page. Watch this, I'm about to do 60 seconds of writing like how I would do in the morning. Setting my timer....aaaaand go:
Oaky so I'm writing. I'm sitting here at my desk and I'm about to go home but I"m gonna go by the store on the way home and get some more eggs and so asparagus and I'm gonna make some more of those egg muffin things. I hope the new muffin tray came in from amazon today. I fucked that last one up. lesson learned. man i hope that annilaliton is still playing at the arc light. really need too let hat in theaters. That shit looks like good. Well, i haven't actually seen what it looks like but i hear it's amazing. love alex garland
and that's it. See all the typos? Yup, no going back to fix shit. Just write.
(If you want to get advanced, this technique is from the book "The Artists Way" and it's fucking genius. Your life is going to change, no joke. This is a good way to start a journal b/c you can just kind of free write about what you did yesterday and what you'll do today)
DO THIS FOR 2 WEEKS
This one is higher rated and costs less
Hi there,
My product is a whiteboard. I'd like to get some shots that are on pure white background and some lifestyle shots. Take a look at the links below. 1st one is of my product, and 2nd is of a competitor that has better pictures. I like how you have staged some of the product shots, what kind of ideas do you have for my product?
Here is a link to my product https://www.amazon.com/OfficeSpace-Aluminum-Magnetic-SmoothGlide-Surface/dp/B01FIPW7EI/ref=s9_simh_gw_g229_i2_r?_encoding=UTF8&fpl=fresh&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=&pf_rd_r=Z6M0MN2NXPX1PW07T9E4&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=a6aaf593-1ba4-4f4e-bdcc-0febe090b8ed&pf_rd_i=desktop
Competition: https://www.amazon.com/XBoard-48x36-Inch-Magnetic-Whiteboard-Aluminum/dp/B01J50F8PM/ref=zg_bs_1069312_13?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=9ECSNRTKRE55DZVH3BEM
very usefull, five$ item, 2$ item. Thanks for the contest more caffeine
Hey- do you have any idea where I could find a chalkboard like this (if that even exists)? My brother has this in his dorm and I like the idea, but chalk just feels so much nicer to use.
>do I need those specific headphones or will any high quality headphone work?
Your Sony headphones will work just fine.
> other than plural eyes (because it’s quite out of budget) what would be the most reliable way to sync audio with the boom mic
Download a free copy of DaVinci Resolve and use the waveform method explained in this video.
> ...is clapping good? Is there a better option?
Yes - for dual system sound, you should "slate" every scene with a clap or (even better) an inexpensive dry erase slate.
Again, hope this is helpful!
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Just get this
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NPM9C49/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Dk1FDbBMVH5NT