Never Lose Your Dongle Again!

Teeny tiny stupid dongleDon't you just hate those tiny little dongles for Bluetooth or proprietary wireless mice or keyboards, headphones, etc?  There's so tiny, they usually aren't labeled with what they are, and it's so easy to forget what they even go to, if you're lucky enough to not just straight up lose them.

Well friends, I have good news:

I found a simple produce that basically makes it much harder to lose those little dongles, and even gives you space to write (with a silver Sharpee or even a printed label) just what the heck it goes to.

 

Luckily, I just happen to know that the pictured "ASUS" dongle is actually a Bluetooth adapter.  It literally doesn't say it anywhere else on the centimeter-sized plug.

After some searching in Amazon, I found USB male to female couplerthese USB male-to-female couplers. Think of it like a tiny extension cord, except there's no cord. It's solid plastic.

But, it gives you a surface you can write on (or tape a note on a small piece of paper to) to actually explain what you have plugged into it.

Observe the majesty:

 

The idea is my tiny stupid dongle never leaves this coupler.  It is its new home forever (or until it dies).  When it does, I'll just erase the Sharpee with some alcohol (or whatever I need to do) and re-label it.

But either way, my Bluetooth dongle is now much harder to lose, and I can tell at a glance what it even is.