Pocket organizers and pocket organizer setups

SharpBits said:
I'm using a YBO pocket organizer as well. One of the GEC dealers had a combo deal on GEC knife, so I grabbed it. Mine has the vertical zipper pocket and on the other side only two slash pockets. A single large pocket at the top. I can slip a DMC fixed blade in there or other small fixed blade. It's worked the best out of numerous others I have tried. Looks like mine is taller than yours.
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Their products sure are great.
I don't know all the models, but I know they have some larger ones which it sounds like you have.
 
I have found that a proper pocket organizer only makes sense if you're going to carry it in your pocket.

I'd never personally use a pocket organizer as the basis for a tool kit, because it makes no sense to restrict yourself to such a small little tool kit if you're not limited by need for it to fit in your pocket.
I don't think I'd go below a roughly 8"×5" or so pouch, but that's just me.
 
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Hickory n steel said:
I have found that a proper pocket organizer only makes sense if you're going to carry it in your pocket.

I'd never personally use a pocket organizer as the basis for a tool kit, because it makes no sense to restrict yourself to such a small little tool kit if you're not limited by need for it to fit in your pocket.
I don't think I'd go below a roughly 8"×5" or so pouch, but that's just me.
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For work I have full tool carts stationed in several locations. But I can do 80% of what I need with what is in the condor pouch. I fix stuff for a living. The home pouch gets a lot of little projects done. I have 3 rolling toolboxes 3-4 carry tool boxes I've been a tradesman for 38 years
 
I've been going to an office job for a long time, up until Covid anyway. I had fine tuned my carry to the items that I use- ink pen and small flashlight in front left pocket, smartphone and folding knife (clipped) in front right pocket, wallet in rear pocket, keys clipped to a beltloop, sunglasses sometimes in shirt pocket. I thought I was well covered and didn't miss anything. Being a knife enthusiast I experimented with carrying 2 folding knives or making my main knife a small fixed blade. I went back to just one folding knife. I get interested in EDC things and that got me interested in multitools. I tried carrying a small multitool but stopped doing it on a daily basis but sometimes carry a Leatherman Charge in left front pocket.
I've gotten interested in EDC again and found people on youtube who make these small EDC kits including bitdrivers, bandaids, etc. I'm not sure I want or need to carry more things but I'm open to it. One advantage of the tiny kits is they have everything but since I will always carry a separate folding knife and separate writing instrumet the tiny kit provides fewer advantages for me.
Some things I don't carry that might be helpful- a few tablets of Excedrin, small scissors
I see people carrying those small Knipex pliers. They look a bit thick and heavy to me but I haven't handled them in person. Are they really small and light enough to stick in a small pack when you're trying to economize space and weight? I see people carry tiny charge cables but nobody carries a flash drive.
In post-Covid world where I don't go to the office every day I find that some days I'm in office mode, some days I'm fooling around the house or working in my garage, and I have more time these days for travel so I might be way out in the middle of nowhere on a Jeep trail. This calls for more variations in EDC, I'm not sure a pocket pack would help me but I might go to a belt pack at least for travel. I'm still evaluating options. A lot of the time I wear cargo pants or cargo shorts and certainly for travel I could easily carry a small pack in a spare pocket.
 
plumberroy said:
For work I have full tool carts stationed in several locations. But I can do 80% of what I need with what is in the condor pouch. I fix stuff for a living. The home pouch gets a lot of little projects done. I have 3 rolling toolboxes 3-4 carry tool boxes I've been a tradesman for 38 years
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If you're smart enough to know which tools are or aren't necessary you can set up something like that effectively, I'm not so my tool boxes and tool kits tend to be overkill because I never know what I could need
 
bdmicarta said:
I've been going to an office job for a long time, up until Covid anyway. I had fine tuned my carry to the items that I use- ink pen and small flashlight in front left pocket, smartphone and folding knife (clipped) in front right pocket, wallet in rear pocket, keys clipped to a beltloop, sunglasses sometimes in shirt pocket. I thought I was well covered and didn't miss anything. Being a knife enthusiast I experimented with carrying 2 folding knives or making my main knife a small fixed blade. I went back to just one folding knife. I get interested in EDC things and that got me interested in multitools. I tried carrying a small multitool but stopped doing it on a daily basis but sometimes carry a Leatherman Charge in left front pocket.
I've gotten interested in EDC again and found people on youtube who make these small EDC kits including bitdrivers, bandaids, etc. I'm not sure I want or need to carry more things but I'm open to it. One advantage of the tiny kits is they have everything but since I will always carry a separate folding knife and separate writing instrumet the tiny kit provides fewer advantages for me.
Some things I don't carry that might be helpful- a few tablets of Excedrin, small scissors
I see people carrying those small Knipex pliers. They look a bit thick and heavy to me but I haven't handled them in person. Are they really small and light enough to stick in a small pack when you're trying to economize space and weight? I see people carry tiny charge cables but nobody carries a flash drive.
In post-Covid world where I don't go to the office every day I find that some days I'm in office mode, some days I'm fooling around the house or working in my garage, and I have more time these days for travel so I might be way out in the middle of nowhere on a Jeep trail. This calls for more variations in EDC, I'm not sure a pocket pack would help me but I might go to a belt pack at least for travel. I'm still evaluating options. A lot of the time I wear cargo pants or cargo shorts and certainly for travel I could easily carry a small pack in a spare pocket.
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my thing is just organizing and more convently carrying the small items I already had in my pockets, with the mandatory ability to retrieve my knife pen and pliers without removing the organizer from my pocket.
I think you'd be more likely to stick with it if you wanted to conveniently organize things you already carry , as opposed to trying to put together a kit of additional items that you haven't needed before and may not actually need.
For example a mini pry bar might be something you never really felt the need to carry before, but if you carried one in a very convenient easy to access way you might find yourself using it more than expected.
If it's in some kind of kit down in a cargo pocket it may not be the handy tool you reach for to remove a rock from your boot tread or open a can of acetone, that is if you even remember it's in there.

All you can really do is try out a pocket organizer and see how it works put for you.
 
Hickory n steel said:
If you're smart enough to know which tools are or aren't necessary you can set up something like that effectively, I'm not so my tool boxes and tool kits tend to be overkill because I never know what I could need
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My kits are always evolving. The work kit originally had a Leatherman crunch, but I cut down the channel locks to fit . The home kit has the long disconnected schrade/ vice grip multi tool. We cover 3 million square feet of buildings there are tool carts in different locations. Plus I've been making a living fixing stuff since 1986 so I have a decent idea of what I need
 
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