Dotz Cord ID Pro Cord and Cable Identification System, 100 Count Bag, Assorted Colors (DCI151M)

As someone that's a little OCD when it comes to organization, I love love love this cable identification set.— COLORS —You get 100 total plastic pieces: 20x each of blue, gray, orange, lime, and yellow. This is so amazing for organization! An example of how I use it: you can have blue for media like video games and Blu-ray, gray for internet devices, orange for charging wires, lime for the kitchen, and yellow for miscellaneous. The possibilities are endless!— LABELING —You get a sheet that is pre-cut to fit inside each plastic identifier. Along with my  DYMO LetraTag LT-100T Plus Portable Label Maker , I don't have to worry about sloppy handwriting to label my things. Nice and consistent text!You also get colored numbered dot stickers to coordinate. An example of using this is connecting speaker wires to a receiver. Red 3 cord goes to Red 3 dot. Easy breezy. Amazing!— FIT —These have a "universal fit" for cords, and will fit cords 0.125 in (3.2 mm) to 0.375 in (9.5 mm) thick. Open up the plastic, wrap it around the cord, and snap it closed. These will fit the majority of your everyday cords, but won't fit on thick electrical cables.— REUSE —If one of your devices breaks and you need to relabel, just open up the plastic identifier and change out the label inside with an updated name for the next device's name. The plastic itself is resistant to degradation due to dust, dirt, heat, and moisture, so you don't have to worry about that. Woot.— SUMMARY —This is a cord organizer's dream product: color-coding in a sturdy material. Label once and life is easy. Everything is organized! Highly recommended. DYMO LetraTag LT-100T Plus Portable Label Maker

The Cord IDs are a major time saver and stress remover for me before an event setup.I have a portable sever that 8 people connect to via 16 USB cables (8 mice, 8 keyboards) and 8 video cards. This takes a combination of USB extension and video extension cables and USB hubs. I take this server to events and need to setup before the event begins. Each USB and video cable MUST go back in the exact same port. You can imagine the challenge especially under a time constraint. With the cord IDs I simply match the "circle number" with the matched cable ending number making event setup a snap.While it doesn't really matter what colors you use, I made all video cables blue, all USB orange. If I had more time, I could've color coded tables.Even if this 8 person direct connection server never moved, I would be glad to use the Dotz Cord ID just to make maintenance easier.I would be very glad to order this again.TIP: After doing over 50 of these, I got the hang of it. Just lay the label in the display side and put the cable over the label and close the lid, letting the cable do the work.THIN CABLES?: For thin cables, like audio out, you may need to tape the label or do what I did and simply wad up a few bits of paper which pushes against the wire and label holding it in place. Another solution would be to snake a small cable inside the plastic ID cord. You could also run another wire (cut just for this purpose) inside the plastic ID cord to fill up the space.The picture is during the event. For clarity, I'll try to update the picture before the event begins, with normal lighting.

If you are just wiring up a home theater once you probably don’t need anything serious like these, but I’m wiring up recording studios with hundreds of random cables here to there seemingly at random that are also constantly being moved around by musicians and engineers that don’t care about the labels or being careful so I need something robust and this is it. Combine this with a consistent labelling strategy and strategic zip ties for stereo pairs or in/out pairs and even if someone comes in and unplugs everything and leaves it all in a pile you can just read the labels and blondly plug everything back in without following leads around for hours. Label both sides, where it goes and what it does and you’re golden. These things DO NOT FALL OFF.A++++ product. Seems expensive at first but the first time they save you an hour they have paid for themselves and then some.

I have 4 laptops, a printer ,hard drive cloner,and 2 lamps plugged in when I'm working in my office. The paper tags with the name of something don't work. Two years from now they're blank. These Dotz markers are the best way to go. You could read them 10 years from now. They're easy to put on. Put the label in the colored tag and just snap together. I used orange for power cords. Blue for all audio wires, green for computer peripherals, yellow for external hard drives and printers, and clear for anything l'm working working on. I have a ton of wires. I've already used one pack of 100 and just got my second pack. These are the only way to go.

These cable identification clips are great! They are really easy to work with — they clip around the cable completely and work well on all kinds of different cables like the fat coaxial cables, flat lamp cords, HDMI cables, speaker cables, etc. I am glad I got the multicolored pack because the different colors help to identify things at a quick glance. The labels come in sheets that are perforated and are easy to separate. The labels some numbered on one side and blank on the other side. Personally I would prefer to have all blank labels instead of having them numbered on one side, but I can see how someone with a lot of cables would like having the numbers. Just rest the label on the inside of the clip and snap it closed around the cable.