DESKPAPERLESS
Set up the paperless desk — ergonomics, cable order, and going digital.
From setting your desk and monitor to the right height and planning a tidy cable run, to sizing a filing cleanup, picking a scan resolution, and adding up what going paperless actually saves, DeskPaperless pairs free hands-on calculators with practical, no-nonsense guides. Set it up once, and set it up right.
Home Office Calculators
Free tools for setting up a home office — desk height calculator, monitor distance calculator, cable length planner, label & storage planner, scan DPI selector, and a paper-to-digital savings calculator.
Desk Height Calculator
Find the right desk, keyboard, and chair heights for your body using standard ergonomic ratios — enter your height and whether you sit or stand.
Monitor Distance Calculator
Get a minimum, ideal, and maximum eye-to-screen viewing distance from your monitor's diagonal size.
Cable Length Planner
Add up the horizontal run, vertical drop, and bends in a cable route to get the standard length to buy.
Label & Storage Planner
Work out how many storage boxes and labels a filing cleanup needs from your document and category counts.
Scan DPI Selector
Work out the exact scan resolution for a target output size, or get a baseline by document type.
Paper-to-Digital Savings Calculator
Estimate what going paperless could save in a year — printing, storage, and filing time, minus digital cost.
Office Machines Museum
Wander a browsable collection of the machines that ran the office before the laptop — typewriters, fax machines and telephones, adding machines and mechanical calculators, and the filing and office equipment that organized it all, each in its own gallery. Every entry, image, and fact is drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
Tour the museum →From the Journal
Practical guides on ergonomics, cable management, filing systems, scanning, and what going paperless actually saves — reading to pair with the calculators above.
How to Set Your Desk and Chair Height for a Pain-Free Workday
A practical, ratio-based method for setting desk, keyboard, and chair heights so your shoulders, wrists, and back stay in a neutral position all day.
How Far Should Your Monitor Really Be From Your Eyes?
Screen size, not just resolution, should set your monitor's distance from your eyes. Here's the simple ratio that keeps a display comfortable to look at all day.
Taming the Cable Jungle: A Practical Guide to Cable Management
A step-by-step approach to planning cable runs before you buy anything, so you end up with the right lengths instead of a tangle of slack or cables stretched too tight.
The Home Office Filing System That Actually Works
Most home filing systems collapse within a few months. Here's how to size a filing cleanup properly the first time, from box count to label count.
What DPI Should You Scan At? A Practical Guide
Scan too low and text goes blurry; too high and files balloon in size. Here's how to pick the right resolution for text, photos, and film.
Going Paperless: What It Actually Saves You
Printing costs, storage space, and filing time all add up quietly. Here's how to work out whether going paperless is actually worth it for your own paperwork volume.
Keep Learning
Plain-language explainers on desk ergonomics, cable and desk organization, digitizing and going paperless, and office filing systems — everything you need to set up a home office that actually works.
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