I don’t use a box but I do the same thing. I call it a junk pile. If it topples over or I have nothing else to do, then I just start working on the junk pile. That means cleaning it or adding to it. Sure that one spot will never be clean but now at least the rest of the house is.

Have you guys considered a voice keyboard?

“I-M-H-I-M the Gen Z Eminem”

Haven’t had landlines in a long time but when I did I remember looking at cordless phones with Bluetooth to connect to your cell phone so you can answer both phones (cell phone and landline) on the handset. Beyond that look into pbx.

Sonarr is TV and radarr is movies.

You didn’t specify but this sounds like an issue where you are confusing sonarr and radarr where only one is configured “properly”.