Digital Packrats, go cure and be simple!
How to Know If You’re a Digital Packrat
- Do you have 20 or more folders and sub-folders in your documents folder on your hard drive?
- Is your list of Internet bookmarks long and overwhelming?
- Is your email program nearly full, or do you use more than one email account because of all the storage you need?
- Do you have multiple duplicates of photos, and is it hard to find a photo you need?
- Is your hard drive 75% full or more?
- Do you have multiple accounts for similar things, making it hard to find stuff?
- Are any of your digital file systems overwhelming?
- Do you have email from 5 years ago?
- Do you have project files from 2 years ago?
- Do you have folders of stuff to read that would take a year to actually read?
Simplifying Your Digital Life
1. Reduce your Distraction by Planning Your Inputs.
- Email 3 times a day
- RSS 1 a day
- FriendFeed and Twitter with Email:
- TURN OF OUTLOOK AND EMAIL POP UP NOTIFICATIONS.
2. Automate your Folders.
- Inbox Zero
- SMART / SEARCH FOLDERS!
- Organize My Reference files by role or format.
3. Reduce your Tools, go for Speed.
- Native Mac Productivity Apps
- TaskPaper
4. Think about Names - Prose your World.
5. Priorities are the Key - REVIEW.
- Collected Info / Action stays in the Inbox, unsorted, until I review it.
- End of day Review.
- End of Week Review.
6. Remove the Random - Be Intensely Intentional.
via tonystewardblog
A 3-Step Cure
- Go through a massive purge.
- Aim for a simple digital life.
- Develop purging routines.
- Target one folder at a time.
- Choose only the important stuff, and trash the rest.
- Simplify before organizing.
- Get organized: one place for everything.
- Reduce accounts.
- Simplify your feeds.
- Clear out your inbox.
- Clear out old emails.
- Clear your desktop.
- Delete multiple photos.
- Stop saving junk.
- Defrag your hard drive.
- Put purging reminders in your calendar.
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