Keyboards & mice
What your hands are on for six hours a day.
What actually matters
- If anything aches by the afternoon, this is where to spend first.
- Wireless is worth it for the desk tidiness alone, but check whether it takes rechargeable batteries or disposables.
- A quiet keyboard matters if you take calls, or if you work in the same room as anybody else.
- Trackballs and vertical mice are worth trying if your wrist complains. They feel wrong for about three days.
Picks
No specific picks in here yet — I only list things once I've actually formed an opinion about them. The points above are what I'd go on in the meantime.
Also in the desk
Kit is the easy part. The awkward part is usually the process.
Buying a label printer fixes an afternoon. If the thing eating your week is the admin around the orders rather than the packing itself, that's the part I build.
Tell me what's eating the week