1.
The first huge area where declutter can be highly beneficial is your email.
Whether you are a student, you work or run your own business, clearing your e-mail out
of all the useless junk you accumulate will clear your workspace.
The first thing I recommend is unsubscribing once and for all to more than 90% of your
commercial e-mail subscriptions.
These are those e-mails that you click and delete or mark as read as soon as you receive
them.
There are a couple of third party services out there that do this job for you, such as
unroll.me or unsubscriber.
I will link those websites down below.
2.
Work towards a clean desktop.
I like to think of the desktop as a good system to tackle priority tasks and visualize through
a few important files what you have to accomplish, and when.
Because of that, I try as much as I can to keep a clean desktop and then keep a few files
I need to work on, right now.
Those files are then color coded by degree of urgency or completion – red for important
files that need to be tackled as soon as I am able to, orange for files I am currently
working on and green for files that have been completed and need revision or submission
through e-mail.
Besides those, I simply organize the remaining files and folders on the file management system.
3.
Only select the most important apps to keep in your dock.
I especially prefer to keep only productivity and work-related apps and I will just spotlight
search any games or other entertainment apps.
I feel that doing that blocks that automatic incitement to play whenever I login to my
mac just because I have that Steam icon in my dock.
The only entertainment app I am currently keeping in the dock is Spotify, as I prefer
to listen to music while I am working.
Besides that, I keep the two Microsoft Office apps I use the most, my calendar, safari,
editing apps for YouTube, my finance management app and Evernote.
4.
Regarding file management, I like to rely on cloud services or a good old hard drive
to store any files that I want to keep but are not important for my work, such as photos,
old videos, completed school work, backups of receipts and personal documents.
That allows me to create a good barrier between any completed work that can be put aside and
those files that are effectively being used on a day-to-day basis.
It simplifies all the future management of information of my computer, reduces a ton
of clutter in storage and makes navigating through documents an easier task.
5.
Finally, I cannot help but mention the importance of minimizing the number of apps you are currently
working with.
I love to experiment with new apps by using a subscription service like Setapp, but I
also hate to accumulate apps with the same purpose.
Regarding word processing, for instance, I still prefer to use Microsoft Word so that
is the only word processing app I currently have installed.
I am also using BusyCal to do all of my calendar work for now, so I deleted Fantastical and
instaCal, since they were not serving any purpose beyond occupying storage space.
Be mindful when selecting the best instruments for your work and don’t think twice before
deleting, as you can probably access those same apps in the app store if you need them
later on.
I hope you have enjoyed today’s top five tips to declutter your digital space!
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