#Microblog Monday 336: Tidying Up, Digitally
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The New York Times had a fantastic article about how to tidy up your life, digitally. It went well beyond the usual, low-hanging fruit advice and provided links, breaking down all the places you need to tidy and how to do it.
The nicest part is that it’s split into seven steps, so you can tackle one per day or one per week, and the whole thing is less overwhelming.
Plus, unlike a lot of articles that focus on cleaning up clutter so your machine runs faster or organizing data into folders, all of these steps are about tidying your online life so you have fewer accounts open or browser extensions used.
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Excellent article. I’m going to do those things. I was just trying to tidy up my secondary e-mail account today.
Those are all good ideas. I try (but fail miserably) to keep my inboxes cleaned up and will occasionally do a blitz to unsub from all the marketing spam that I never even look at. I also occasionally go through all my bookmarks and delete the ones that don’t work any more.
Is it weird that, while most of the rest of my life is in constant disarray, I am actually fairly digitally organized?
Really good ideas, I have a few email accounts I haven’t used in years, and apps I have not used in ages. And sometimes I check my apps on the play store and I realize some apps that I have uninstalled are still connected to my account, I will try to clean this up more often.
I will admit that I need to read this article and to do the things, because my digital life is pretty much that of a hoarder. But I will also be honest answer say that I can’t take the stress all at once, so I’ll save this to read when I have mental space to digitally declutter, which should be soon because I am just drowning in digital detritus.
Thank you for this. I desperately need help in this area. This will be a journey for me–even if broken into steps.