Hey guys!
Welcome back to Lavendaire, and welcome back to another Get Your Life Together challenge.
This week we are focusing on our digital space, and that can mean anything and everything.
Honestly, this week was one of the more intimidating ones for me,
because looking at my digital space, it's just going to be a headache
to try to declutter and organize, even though I try to be organized already.
By digital, what I am going to try to focus on is my phone,
the apps on my phone, decluttering the photos on my phone.
And then I'm going to move on to my email inbox and Google Drive storage.
I don't know about you guys but I am almost to the limit of my allowed Gmail storage
and Google Drive storage, so I am just going to try to lower that.
Next I'm going to try to declutter and organize the files on my computer and hard drives.
I have multiple hard drives, backups.
The way I organize my video clips, I try to be organized
but it's just going to be annoying to go through them.
But let's not start off on the wrong foot.
Let's be excited to declutter our digital space.
So today I'm going to work on my phone and I think I'm going to do it a day at a time.
We'll see how we do this week.
First things first, I'm just going to go through all of the apps on my phone
and see which ones I can delete.
I'm going to start on the back page because those are my least used apps.
Also, I hate notifications, and so if I notice any badges, I just do my best to turn it off.
By the way, just so you guys know, I do have an iPhone X and I have a lot of storage space.
I have 256 GB, and looking at my stats, I've used less than half:
109 GB, which is pretty good because I've had this phone for over a year.
Usually, another way to delete apps is to look here
and see which apps are taking the most space in your phone and delete from there.
The biggest space-taker is obviously photos and videos I take on my phone.
I also send photos from my camera to my phone, so that's why it's pretty hefty.
One thing that I do use that I should update is Google Photos.
My Google Photos is synced to my phone.
Basically, every once in a while, I have to open this app
and let my photos upload onto Google Photos.
Now for the tedious part:
I'm going to go through my camera roll and delete any photos or videos
that are duplicates or unnecessary, things that I don't want to keep.
Another method that is probably smarter than deleting photos is to go straight to Videos
and delete the videos, so why don't we do that?
Let me go to my Videos section because I know I have a lot of videos
that I could probably delete.
So now what I'm going to do is: Plug my phone into my desktop
and back everything up just so I have a current backup of my phone
because someone who has their life together should have their phone backed up currently, right?
So it's another day and I decided to spend this evening decluttering my email and Google Drive.
My personal problem is – you know how you have a specific amount of storage on Google?
I almost to the limit, I'm at 96% usage,
so I'm just going to delete anything that's unnecessary
to free up some space on my personal email and my work email.
Another thing you guys can focus on,
if you don't have a problem with storage, is getting your email inbox to zero.
So spend time replying to anyone you need to reply to, just get anything done.
But that's not my focus today.
Today I'm just going to clear up some space.
Right now, as you can see, this is my current storage situation.
I've used 96%.
Most of it is in Gmail actually, so now I know I shouldn't even bother decluttering my Google Drive.
I should just declutter my Gmail.
I'm not going to get more storage on my personal account.
I have a business account where I have much more storage,
but anyway, what I'm going to do is: Go to All Mail.
And what I do whenever I get social or promotion emails, I usually just archive it.
So I remove it from my inbox, but I realize you don't actually delete that email.
You just don't see it in your inbox.
So I'm going to go into All Mail.
I'm going to check everything that I haven't opened, everything that's unread
because if I haven't opened it and I archived it, it's probably not important.
So I'm going to start deleting it, and I hope I don't delete something that I regret.
Oh look, there's a Spam folder.
Let me delete everything in my spam folder, delete forever.
I don't know about you guys, but in Gmail they have these categories,
so I think I'm just going to delete everything there.
I don't really care about my social updates.
So I'm going to select all of this.
Ooh, should I do the "Select all 3,000-whatever conversations" in Social?
That's the thing.
I don't know if I'm going to delete something on accident that I don't want to delete.
I'm going to browse through this but I'm pretty sure none of this is that important.
I'm going to do it.
Alright, next up are Promotions.
I love that Google helps you organize it.
So under Promotions, I'm going to do the same thing
because I'm pretty sure I don't need any of these emails here.
Some of these have my receipts which I like to keep my receipts from orders.
So I might not have as easy of a time deleting these.
So after browsing a few pages of this, I honestly think that
there were only a few exceptions where orders were categorized as promotions,
so I think I'm pretty safe to delete all my promotions.
Honestly, I just don't have the patience to go through thousands of emails,
so I think I'm just going to do it.
I'm going to select all.
Oh, 5,655 conversations.
I'm just going to delete it.
Confidently click that OK button.
Now we wait.
And there it is!
All done!
Another thing I heard is: You should check your trash.
Make sure you empty the trash.
So I bet – See, look.
My trash, I have 9,789 emails.
I have to delete the trash in order to see the update.
Now for the moment – Oooh!
We went from – Let's see, what was it earlier?
We went from 14.47 GB to 13.86.
I notice that, here I have a label for Unroll.Me,
which is the app that I use to batch all my newsletters together.
And so I really don't need any of these emails.
I know that I can select all of those and delete all of those as well.
This is pretty fun, actually.
I like the feeling of deleting unnecessary baggage.
Right now, I'm going to do Unroll.Me.
I'm going to show you guys how it works,
because I feel like we get signed up for newsletters
that we don't even think we're signed up for and this just helps you clean things up.
So this is what the back-end of Unroll.Me looks like.
Let me edit my subscriptions.
You can either add something to Rollup or keep it in your inbox or unsubscribe.
And so, I would just go through this.
These are – Wow, all these new ones that I have to sort through.
I'll be honest guys, even though I add some things to my Rollup,
which is your daily digest of all your newsletters in one place, I rarely check it.
So later on, after I do this, I'm going to look into what is in my Rollup and delete those as well.
So I've successfully cleared all of the subscriptions,
most of which I don't even think I signed up for.
I just somehow got added to a list.
So you can see – Ooh, what a lucky number!
I've unsubscribed to 888 newsletters since using Unroll.Me,
and you see they're in alphabetical order.
I did not sign up for 888 newsletters.
Anyway, this is what's in my Rollup,
so I'm just going to start unsubscribing from things that I don't really care about.
Generally, in my Rollup, I like to keep newsletters
where I actually care about promotions from these places,
or things I want to see if I'm curious, just so I have the option.
Things that I keep in my inbox are bills, business-related things,
health or doctor-related things.
And there are two newsletters that I like to have in my inbox.
One is Marie Forleo's email because I like to actually read those.
Another one is Em Cosmetics because I support Michelle Phan,
so I like to see her emails as well.
So that's it for today.
I'm just going to continue doing that very boring method of deleting unread emails.
And then I'm going to do the same thing to my business email as well.
So hope you enjoyed that one!
Hey guys!
It's a new day.
Today I'm going to try to organize my hard drives.
My hard drives are where I keep all of my video files, folders.
And I have a backup hard drive where I've backed up my entire laptop.
It's kind of gotten messy over the years, so I'm just going to give an overview.
I have three hard drives.
The smallest one is called "Lily".
I use that the most often because it's portable, and I edit off of that one.
That one's 1 TB.
Fleur is my older one that's 2 TB.
That one, I kind of put into this bigger one.
My big one is called "Whimsy".
This is a 4 TB hard drive.
This is the hard drive where I've backed up my entire laptop
and I've also backed up my Fleur hard drive, and some of the files off of Lily.
Ideally, Whimsy was supposed to be a backup of my hard drives.
But now that things are getting full, I think I need to do some rearranging.
These are my three hard drives: Lily, Fleur, and Whimsy.
Let me show you how I organize my videos.
Usually I put my next videos that I have to edit under "// next".
And this one, I think I'm done.
Whenever I'm done editing footage, I will just delete all of this.
So this, I can delete.
Then I'll delete my trash.
I like to keep the "// next" folder just for the next videos that I'm going to edit personally.
But I also have an editor, so I have her own folder.
These are videos for Loryn to help me edit.
And what I do – Anytime I film stuff, I have pretty b-roll.
So usually I will keep only the pretty stuff.
And my folder's called "pretty to keep" and this is where I just keep the pretty b-roll files.
And I'm going to try to organize this so that it's more organized.
I also have a folder for vlogs.
And you also notice, the way I name my files, I always have the year, month,
and then the date, and a short little description of what's in that folder.
That way, everything's in chronological order.
So currently, I'm trying transferring some photos, and while I wait for that,
I made a little list of what I need, how I want my stuff to be organized.
So I need one hard drive which has my current projects,
and include all the pretty b-roll and pretty videos that I can use.
And then I need – whether it's the same hard drive or another hard drive,
where I have all my Lavendaire videos in one folder
because right now, all my videos are in different folders.
It's kind of a mess.
I want to have backups of everything if possible.
I might need to just – I don't know – get another hard drive or …
My Whimsy one that's supposed to be the backup of all my backups, is full.
Figure that out later.
I think I'm just gonna go for it.
I'm going to try to #1: Organize my b-roll folder which is going to be in Lily.
Now that I'm done adding my favorite pretty b-roll shots
and organizing them into my "pretty to keep" folder,
what I'm going to do is work on the Fleur hard drive.
And like I said, I'm going to turn this into my hard drive of all the Lavendaire videos, and all my photos.
As you can see, all the other files are Adobe Premiere projects,
which I don't think I will ever open these projects again.
So I'm just going to move this.
Okay, great.
[Video: Hi everyone! 2017 is right around the corner...] Oh my gosh.
[...and if you didn't hear...]
That's my first commercial for the 2017 Artist of Life Workbook back when it was just digital.
I'm gonna make another folder for raw footage that I personally want to keep,
and I've already labeled them in purple here.
These videos mean something to me.
I have some old videos – these are from 2011, 2010.
These are just video files that I want to keep.
Kind of like what I was doing earlier,
after I consolidate all of my files into the folders that I want them to be
and just have those main folders, then I can delete the messy random folders.
And then if I have enough space, I'm just going to have Whimsy
be my backup of the other two hard drives.
So hopefully I have two copies of everything, just in case.
Now that everything is done transferring into the Fleur hard drive,
I feel like I got all of Lavendaire's videos of all time,
my other film and projects, memory videos (footage I want to keep).
So now I can start deleting the unnecessary folders because I already copied everything over.
Alright, empty my trash.
And I think after that I should be done.
Things are more clean and organized for me.
I hope you guys enjoyed this digital GYLT challenge.
This was one of the more tedious and time-consuming ones for sure,
but I think it just feels nice to have everything in its place.
Everything feels more organized and now, moving forward, it makes it easier for me to work.
Alright, have a beautiful day, guys.
See you next time!
Bye!