Clutter Busting Coach

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Managing Digital Clutter 

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In my last post, I mentioned digital photos and ideas for managing those. In a previous post I mentioned digital clutter in general.

There is so much to manage digitally these days, and it can be overwhelming. Besides photos, our cell phones hold contacts, notes, reminders, apps, coupons, playlists, podcasts, recipes, favorites and more.

Here is a Declutter Checklist for Your Phone:

  • Delete unused apps
  • Organize remaining apps and place into folders, if appropriate
  • Declutter your social media by unfollowing people or pages
  • Update your social media profiles
  • Organize your playlists
  • Unsubscribe from emails you no longer are interested in or manage preferences, so they are appropriate
  • Delete old emails that are not records
  • Delete call logs
  • Delete texts threads that are no longer current
  • Delete unnecessary reminders/alerts
  • Delete unwanted notes
  • Clear cache and history
  • Change/update phone background

Schedule a time to manage your digital clutter and you will be amazed at how freeing this process can be. And again, start small by just picking one of the tips.

Digital Clutter

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We talked about paper clutter in a previous post and now I want to address digital clutter.

I found that once I started eliminating paper, my digital footprint increased, and I had more electronic files to manage such as emails and records. And that I ended up with digital clutter. You can find digital clutter in your emails, apps on the phone, recipes and other bookmarked items, social media, and documents.

Digital clutter can cause stress and can be just as much of a challenge as paper piles/clutter and possibly more. And it too can be overwhelming to manage. Since it doesn’t occupy a “physical space” per se, it can be “out of sight, out of mind” clutter such as in my case.

I have acknowledged that my emails and electronic documents are something that I need to get control of and have scheduled myself to do so in the next month or two. The Zebra has a great definition of what digital clutter is and how to manage it. They even provide a digital minimalist clutter challenge.

Join me in eliminating your digital clutter.