Background:

A “pill organizer” (Figure 1) is a container for vitamins, medications, or anything else that a person wants to remember to take on a recurring basis. 

The Issue:

There are many other recurring tasks that could also benefit from a weekly organizer. For example, according to the lobbyists at Big Vegetable, everyone should eat many servings of vegetables every day. But how can a person keep track of their vegetable consumption?

Proposal:

The answer is simple: we can apply the “pill organizer” concept to other aspects of life. A person who wants to ensure that they eat the “correct” quantity of vegetables each week can just pre-load a set of bins with their desired vegetables for each day (Figure 2).

Conclusion:

This “weekly organizer” concept can be applied to all sorts of other situations as well. We could imagine a person pre-loading their clothing for the upcoming week in these bins, or putting chapters of a book they want to read into the bins, or rationing the number of sodas they drink. For prior art, we should also look at chocolate advent calendars (https://www.google.com/search?q=advent+calendar+chocolate), which are a holiday product that provides a single piece of chocolate in each of the days leading up to Christmas. (This system could also basically be considered as a “year-round vegetable advent calendar.”)

PROS: Might increase national health, or at least the profits of Big Vegetable.

CONS: Be careful not to store your vegetable bins outside in the sun, or they might also inadvertently serve as compost bins.

Originally published 2024-05-20.