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One suggestion if you do this type of thing regularly. Go to the pharmacy and pick up one of those pill planning boxes. They are perfect for placing tiny screws in and you can separate them in order you removed them (one step per box) and then when you put it back together just use the screws in reverse order.
Another option for fastener management if this is just bench work is a lipstick organizer:
These can be had from about $5 to $15.
Yeah I can see those too... I'd be cautious of anyone with that many different lipsticks but looks good for screw holder.
I prefer to just use a rubber mat. As you take the screws out I put them in the orientation of where they came out of the laptop/phone. Much quicker for me and you can mindlessly do it without any wonder of where screws went. Basically just looks like a screw map when your done, then resemble in reverse. This image shown appears to have torn down a lot more than needed for just the key board though, but some devices do have weird quirks. But why would a screen ever need to come off the clamshell for a keyboard replacement?
Yeah those can work too. I've just had experience with a table being bumped, screw falls to floor, the demons under the floor steal the screw, laptop is now short a screw
If you wanna get real fancy keeping up with screws, get one of those magnetic mats like we used in our computer shop.
Yeah, I've used those before but atleast the one I used didn't separate them, it was handy when working in awkward places as you could just hang on and put the screws on it but you couldn't separate them. I like the pill dispenser so I can follow directions and fill Monday morning on step 1, Monday mid day on step 4, Monday evening on step 7, Tuesday morning on step 9(completely made up step numbers). Then when I put it back together I use all of Tuesday morning, Monday evening, and if I have an extra screw in Monday morning I have a good idea of where I missed something.