The tape works nicely
It's impossible to tear, it cuts only. I can make symbols with it. I can identify the symbols in the distance.
I've ordered some fluorescent sharpies to add into the mix. I've ordered a bunch of templates so I can have accurate symbols.
Edit (multiple edits):
I put a few stripes on my primary spice lids. Now I know exactly where to reach at all times. No black light required, the stuff is bright to start off with. And I got lots of colors to choose from so I can put little X's and circles of different colors. I've ordered templates so I can be very exact on my symbols.
I will continue to try additional color sources. The gel nail polish actually works very well under black light, but you can barely see it under regular light so it's not for me. I will try acrylic pens. I will try all kinds of stuff. At that point I will have infinite variability since it won't be just tape. The symbols will morph into a primary indexing vehicle, but the rest of the devices might also be glowing brightly with specific colors, it just won't be tape.
One important thing about working with tape or anything sticky. Have folded cookie sheets which are nothing more than parchment paper sitting next to you. Lay your sticky stuff on that. You have to work to make it stick. Have some pennies there to use as weights on the tape. At that point you can clearly cut small shapes and nothing sticks to the scissors and it slides off wherever you want to tape it.
I've been playing all morning and I only used about 3 in of this stuff. Incredibly bright combined with slivers that you can see in the distance means it goes very far.
In a room, stacked and stacked with tools and supplies and crap everywhere I can see a specific tool shining at me 15 ft in the distance. The specific tool I want. Every time. No matter where it is. The room has dim visibility from a single bulb in the corner with two mediocre compact fluorescent black lights. I have a four-footer waiting to be plugged in but I have to dig it out of a closet. I'll put the symbols on all sides.
Note on the templates I ordered: I considered wiccan symbols and runes but that became scary. But that's just my prejudice. Hey Andrew, any good symbols I should memorize and apply to my world?
When the black light goes on the symbols are searing and everything else fades to almost nothing.
I will duplicate the tape symbol and put a very bright real picture of the object and next to that I will have the words in fluorescent what the object is. Every time I tape and label an object, I will create an associated card with this information. I will create a map of the room which will be nothing more than a rectangle with a few locations and I will place these cards where I would consider the default location within the map. That will be up on the wall at all times on a 3x6 area. I'll move the cards if I move the default location of a given tool but it will always be there and I will always have the map association visually to glance at to reinforce. When I gather the tools to put them away I'll glance at the map to direct me where to put them.
The cookie sheets work with velcro backside glue as well. I've recovered huge strips of velcro off the wall and the sticking stuff was just as good to start and I then stored it on the parchment paper.
I do this with T-Rex duct tape, the strongest duct tape in the world. If you want to save this expensive duct tape for reuse, you can as long as you can peel it.
Do not use rolls of parchment paper! That shit curls all over the place and will drive you insane when trying to use it like this.
Note on cutting boards. Why haven't I been using cutting boards for arts and crafts? So now the cutting boards are on top and bottom of the stacks of parchment paper which contains the stacks of recovered and active sticky stuff.
On the other hand, I did just order a self-healing cutting board for the real arts and crafts work.
I've ordered some fluorescent sharpies to add into the mix. I've ordered a bunch of templates so I can have accurate symbols.
Edit (multiple edits):
I put a few stripes on my primary spice lids. Now I know exactly where to reach at all times. No black light required, the stuff is bright to start off with. And I got lots of colors to choose from so I can put little X's and circles of different colors. I've ordered templates so I can be very exact on my symbols.
I will continue to try additional color sources. The gel nail polish actually works very well under black light, but you can barely see it under regular light so it's not for me. I will try acrylic pens. I will try all kinds of stuff. At that point I will have infinite variability since it won't be just tape. The symbols will morph into a primary indexing vehicle, but the rest of the devices might also be glowing brightly with specific colors, it just won't be tape.
One important thing about working with tape or anything sticky. Have folded cookie sheets which are nothing more than parchment paper sitting next to you. Lay your sticky stuff on that. You have to work to make it stick. Have some pennies there to use as weights on the tape. At that point you can clearly cut small shapes and nothing sticks to the scissors and it slides off wherever you want to tape it.
I've been playing all morning and I only used about 3 in of this stuff. Incredibly bright combined with slivers that you can see in the distance means it goes very far.
In a room, stacked and stacked with tools and supplies and crap everywhere I can see a specific tool shining at me 15 ft in the distance. The specific tool I want. Every time. No matter where it is. The room has dim visibility from a single bulb in the corner with two mediocre compact fluorescent black lights. I have a four-footer waiting to be plugged in but I have to dig it out of a closet. I'll put the symbols on all sides.
Note on the templates I ordered: I considered wiccan symbols and runes but that became scary. But that's just my prejudice. Hey Andrew, any good symbols I should memorize and apply to my world?
When the black light goes on the symbols are searing and everything else fades to almost nothing.
I will duplicate the tape symbol and put a very bright real picture of the object and next to that I will have the words in fluorescent what the object is. Every time I tape and label an object, I will create an associated card with this information. I will create a map of the room which will be nothing more than a rectangle with a few locations and I will place these cards where I would consider the default location within the map. That will be up on the wall at all times on a 3x6 area. I'll move the cards if I move the default location of a given tool but it will always be there and I will always have the map association visually to glance at to reinforce. When I gather the tools to put them away I'll glance at the map to direct me where to put them.
The cookie sheets work with velcro backside glue as well. I've recovered huge strips of velcro off the wall and the sticking stuff was just as good to start and I then stored it on the parchment paper.
I do this with T-Rex duct tape, the strongest duct tape in the world. If you want to save this expensive duct tape for reuse, you can as long as you can peel it.
Do not use rolls of parchment paper! That shit curls all over the place and will drive you insane when trying to use it like this.
Note on cutting boards. Why haven't I been using cutting boards for arts and crafts? So now the cutting boards are on top and bottom of the stacks of parchment paper which contains the stacks of recovered and active sticky stuff.
On the other hand, I did just order a self-healing cutting board for the real arts and crafts work.
