Three quizzes to help you stop guessing what office supplies you need

Most office supply stores leave the curation to you. You land on the homepage looking for a notebook and you end up scrolling past dot grids, hardcover journals, spiral-bound notebooks, planners, sketchbooks, college rule, wide rule, mixed media, 5x8, 6x9, A5, B6… and somewhere around the seventh page you close the tab.

That's our fault, not yours. We've been making customers do all the curation work themselves — and we want to fix it.

So we built three quizzes

Each one takes 60 seconds. Five questions. You don’t need to give us your email to see your result. The goal is simple: tell us a little about how you actually work, and we’ll hand-pick a set of supplies that matches — so you don’t have to dig.

Here’s what each quiz does, and who it’s for.

1. What kind of planner are you?

This is the most specific of the three. It’s for people whose work happens on paper — planners, notebooks, journals, sticky notes, the right pen for the page. We figured out five planner personalities and matched each to a starter toolkit:

• The Bullet Journaler — one dot grid notebook, fine-tip gel pens, sticky flags, washi tape. You build your own system.
• The Daily Planner — a printed planner, a wall calendar, and a pen that lasts. No system to invent.
• The Digital-First Note-Taker — mostly digital, but a spiral notebook in the bag for meetings and a nice pen for when it matters.
• The Project Manager — stickies, clipboards, labels, binders. You think in projects, not feelings.
• The Visual Thinker — blank sketchbooks, markers, brush pens, room to mind-map.

If you mostly use paper to think, start here. Take the planner quiz →

2. What’s your work style?

This one is broader. It’s for anyone with a workspace — minimalist or maximalist, executive or student, builder or creator. Five questions about what your desk looks like, where you work, when you’re most “on,” and what you wish you had more of. You come out matched to one of five workspace identities:

• The Minimalist — fewer, better things. One desk pad, one warm lamp, one pen.
• The Maximalist / Creator — plants, color, expression. Your desk is a living thing.
• The Executive — black, chrome, leather, lockable storage. The setup looks as serious as the work.
• The Student / Note-Taker — multiple subjects, color-coded everything, supplies that survive a backpack.
• The Builder / Maker — the desk is a workbench. Task lights, hubs, rolling stands, tools.

If you’re not sure where to start with your setup, take this one. Take the work-style quiz →

3. Set up your home office in 5 minutes

This one is for people building out a real workspace, not just buying a pen. Tell us the room, the square footage, the budget, and what’s already there. You come back with a complete setup — furniture, lighting, storage, accessories — sized to your space:

• Apartment Setup ($300–$800) — the smallest setup that lets you work. Compact, attractive, effective.
• Spare-Room Office ($800–$2,000) — a real desk, real chair, real storage. The investment is worth it.
• Garage Studio / Maker Space — heavy-duty workstations, magnifier lamps, tool storage, no fussy aesthetics.
• Two-Person Shared Office — L-shapes, parallel desks, his-and-hers filing, zero cable mess.
• Small Business Reception — signage, presentation boards, compliant storage. Customer-ready.

If you’re outfitting a room, not buying one item, this is the quiz. Take the home office quiz →

Why we built these

Most office supply stores either show you everything or pretend to curate. We’re trying for something different: a real selection, presented as your selection, based on five quick questions about how you work.

The other thing these quizzes do, quietly, is help us be more useful over time. If you save your result with an email at the end, we’ll send you a single short email with your toolkit — not a marketing blast. We’ll know what kind of supplies fit how you work, and our future emails (rare, I promise) will actually be about products you might care about. That’s it. No drip campaigns. No urgent “you forgot something in your cart!” nonsense.

If you take all three quizzes, you’ll get three different angles on the same thing — that’s normal. They’re designed to overlap. The planner quiz tells us how you think. The work-style quiz tells us what your space wants to look like. The home office quiz tells us what to put in it.

Where to start

If you came here today because you’re shopping for something specific — a notebook, a planner, a pen — start with the planner quiz. It’s the shortest and the most specific. If you’re building out a workspace from scratch, jump to the home office quiz. If you’re just curious, the work-style quiz is the most fun.

Thanks for being here.

— JJ