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5 Tips for Decluttered Your Digital Life

Updated: Jul 30, 2023

Introduction

Whether it's your life, home or workspace, or digital device everything needed to be decluttered over periods of time. Decluttering home, office space, or your digital devices helps you organize and gives you clarity as well. Cluttering leads to dissatisfaction as well in life. Cluttering will stimulate the cortisol hormone increasing stress.


Here are 5 Tips for Decluttered Your Digital Life

Digital decluttering
Digital decluttering

Tip #1 - Declutter your digital life


Decluttering your digital life, and devices are as much as important as decluttering your home. So clutter phone with necessary apps and your computer with waste data not only slows down the speed of your device but also takes up unwanted space or storage, whether its blurred selfies or any unwanted apps that you are not using it from months better to delete its and increase the efficiency of your device and storage as well.



Tip #2 - Back up Everything Stored Digitally


Taking back up of your important files and photos helps you to speed up your device and Increase the storage space. Save cloud storage. Use google photos to save or store your photo. Take some time to store your data in, the cloud, or Goggle photos or take paid cloud service for more space storage.


“The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don’t.” ― Joshua Becker

6 Effective ways to safely back up your data:

  1. Use an external hard drive

  2. Use USB flash drive

  3. Use optical media

  4. Use cloud storage

  5. Invest in network attached storage drive

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Tip #3 - Delete, what doesn't serve you

When was the last time you used any checklist or any other unwanted apps, the best thumb rule is to declutter all apps which you have not used in the last month, they are just taking up storage space and slow down the speed of your device, better to have minimalistic approach even when it comes to digital decluttering. get rid of all blurry photos, and unwanted messages from your phone to make your phone more efficient to use.


Phone decluttering
Phone decluttering

What to delete what not

  1. Unsubscribe from everything you never read

  2. Clear out your inbox in a smart way

  3. Clean-up your computer desktop

  4. Uninstall ay apps you don't need

  5. Delete the content of your download folder

  6. Disable non essential start-up program



Tip #4 - Organize Files and apps

After decluttering all unwanted data, photos, or apps now its time to organize your File and apps, make a folder, and categorize it as per that, Like putting all shopping apps in one folder, Entertainment apps in one folder, Travel and checklist, and planner apps in one folder, this is how you organize your device properly and never feel cluttered, or disorganized stuff in your phone or computer.

How to organize digital life:

  1. Stay organize by regularly filing documents and dleteing unused files

  2. Create and maintain an organized naming system for your files

  3. Make a habit of creating folders for new projects or documents

  4. Monitor your subscription and delete unsed one

  5. Avoid unnecessary downloads


Tip #5 - Clear your inbox

Now it's time to clear your inbox, promotional emails, spam emails, and trashed ones, need to be cleared out on regular bases. It will not only take up your storage space but slow down and clutter the inbox as well. Better to have a habit to clear out your inbox on regular bases to make it more organized, putting the star on important emails and categorize it in the same manner.


Conclusion

So this is how I declutter my device and social media stuff on regular bases, it helps me to have organized and gives me clarity about what's important for me or not. Just decluttering your digital device will speed up, and expand the storage in your device. Feel free to share your thoughts and tips for digital decluttering as well.



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