Your home office deserves a summer refresh

Dear Poketo friends,

Happy July! As a newly minted American citizen, I love the Fourth of July. This year, youll find me happily eating a hot dog with ketchup off my Bamboo Dinner Plate (Im partial to the Flora pattern) and drinking an iced tea out of my teal Double Wall Wavy Glass (my pink wavy glass is busy holding my pens, while my lilac one is pulling double duty as a bud vase). I hope your celebration is exactly what you want it to be, too!

I know spring cleaning is a thing, but I much prefer a summer refresh. The warm weather and sunshine give me tons of motivation and make me feel like a new person: maybe its because in Australia, where I grew up, peak summer was in January, when we made our New Year's resolutions. Its also moving season for a lot of folks (not me this year, thank goodness), so if home/office/life organization is top of mind for you, too, here are a few of my essentials:

• Everything Desk Pad: Im a big note taker, and while I may have 100+ tabs open on my browser, my best thinking and to-dos are captured pen-to-paper, on my Desk Pad.

• Project Planner: This is a must-have for work organization, and its a bestseller for a reason. People love it for big-picture planning and daily checklists, and it has lots of different types of layouts so you can choose the one that works best for your brain.

• Stick To It Weekly Pad: Stick to your weekly plan, literally! This pad features 54 weekly peel-and-stick sheets for flexible planning, and now comes in colors like red and blue (just in time for the 4th).

• Accordion Pro-Filer: For us dinosaurs who still like to keep paper copies around, this is the best organizational tool Ive found. Its 12 subfolders help organize and consolidate every layer of your life.

• Swell Sticky Tabs: Ive been keeping tabs on all the sticky tabs, and I can promise that the Poketo Swell Sticky Tabs are the chicest ones out there.