I had a shallow pencil drawer that wasn't big enough for much but it was perfect for resistors,diodes etc. I cut the cavities in 3/4" MDF with a round end router bit on a router table. It was an easy project and now my parts are so simple to locate.
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What happens if you want to add a 680K to the mix?
@rbyrer: Voted. Fantastic idea
Chop the whole thing up into kindling and start again.
I see no other way.ha
Use numbers 10, 20, 30... as labels
Then in a Google or Excel spreadsheet (SS) in Column A list numbers, then the Column B the item
This way when a new item needs to be added out of sequence, then this is done simply by adding the item in the next number after the previous last number
When you need an item, you do a Alphabetical or Numerical sort on Column B, so one item may be in slot 40, while the other in slot 110, but you don't care
Going up by ten also allows for those cases you might need, say, an item between 10 and 20
Incidentally, in a Column C you could put notes about Column B
SO
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So simple, yet so perfect!
I've got to built one.