what's up guys it's Adrienne welcome back to my channel in today's video we
are going to be decluttering our digital lives starting with these little devices
that we use on the daily basis okay thank you so much to Yahoo Mail for
sponsoring in this part of the video I honestly couldn't have figured out a lot
of these tips without your help so thank you when I think about stress and
clutter sure I have a ton of physical clutter in my space around me it's very
ironic and packing for Thanksgiving and my stuffs everywhere but really the
biggest stressor that comes to mind is this device right here that I use every
single day constantly having notifications text dings badges just
there's so much on here because we can use these devices for so much which is
awesome and I'm so grateful to have technology like this and to be able to
use my phone and basically have a computer in my pocket but that being
said I think there are ways to avoid this overstimulation and this just
stress and clutter that is on here and I'm gonna give you guys seven really
easy surefire foolproof ways to declutter your digital life on your
phone right now so the first thing that we're gonna do to declutter our phone is
deal with emails email has been one of the biggest sources of clutter for me
and earlier this year I actually developed a pretty good strategy for
organizing my inbox using tabs and folders but at the end of the day I
could not maintain it I wanted my inbox to be at zero all the time and it's just
I kept getting flooded with all these emails whether it's actual emails I need
to read and that's another thing sometimes I would miss the ones I need
to read regardless I started to realize how much of my life is handled on email
that's not just my actual mail and so this was first and foremost the thing
that I needed to declutter the most so I'm gonna talk about the Yahoo Mail app
because when they approached me about this video I was so shocked to figure
out that this is not just about email the app is like this all in one place to
just handle everything in your life I want to emphasize something you guys you
do not need a new yahoo email address to use this app you can actually sync all
of your inboxes onto this one app at once so it actually organizes and
prioritizes everything from deals and discounts that you get in your inbox you
can unsubscribe to email mailing lists right there you can see all your travel
information you can see all your attachments unlike one little tab so
this app really like a personal assistant right in your
pocket so as you can see you can kind of drag out these little tabs to prioritize
what matters the most to you so for me I think travel would probably be a huge
one and then the unsubscribe feature Wow I used to talk about different ways
to strategize unsubscribing from mailing lists that you don't want to be on
anymore but on the on mail app you can actually unsubscribe right from the app
which is so nice because I literally swear I'd I feel like I'm the only
person on earth that doesn't have one of those spam email addresses that they
sign up for everything on I actually use my real email every single day if I want
I can just go through and unsubscribe to all of the mailing lists that I no
longer want to be a part of but also the deals I'm realizing I'm not even seeing
the deals that are in my inbox because I normally just delete those emails right
away cuz there are too many as I mentioned you can view all of your
attachments in one place thank goodness because there's nothing worse than
needing to find that one photo that someone sent or that one contract and I
just have to scroll through 45 emails in a thread and then everything gets slow
and laggy literally that's the bane of my existence again like I never truly
realized how much of my everyday life is being handled on my email and so this
app has truly made that so much easier I feel like there's just one place I can
go I don't have to be checking all my emails I don't have to be like searching
for travel confirmations and all these deals it's just in one place we're just
so so so nice so that's tip number one I highly recommend downloading the Yahoo
Mail app I will leave a link down below for you guys to check it out so thanks
again Yahoo Mail for sponsoring at this portion of the video and now on to the
rest of the tips okay tip number two for decluttering your phone is to delete all
of your unused apps I think that we all can say we download way too many apps
and we end up not using a ton of them so I'm just gonna go through and delete
basically all the apps that I don't use I do want to show you guys one easy way
to find this if you actually go to your settings and then go to your storage
it'll show you all of the apps that you use in order of like most usage and most
storage to lease so if you scroll down to the bottom you'll likely see all the
apps that you literally don't use and then you can just delete them so I'm
just gonna go ahead and do that
I'm so glad I'm doing this because there's there are apps that I did not
even know that I had on here so the next tip is to turn off these badges which
are these little red circles that alert you that you have like unread
notifications these are the bane of my existence they stress me out and I have
them all the time so what I didn't fully realize is that you can actually just
get rid of the badges I think a lot of you probably knew this but in order to
do this you would figure out whichever app is giving you badges and then go
into your notification settings and then pretty much just turn off badges so as
you can see I just turned off badges for Instagram and now they're going so nice
what else okay so now that my badges are mostly turned off for all of these apps
another thing that you can do to just keep your phone very minimal and just
not as cluttered is to put all of your like less frequently used apps into
folders I have talked so many times about different creative ways to
organize your apps and I'll link some of those videos down below but right now
the strategy that I'm using is what I call shelves so on the left side as you
can see are all these folders I have all the apps that I don't use as frequently
and on the right side I have the three apps in that category that I use the
most so I have like social media here are all the apps that I don't use very
much here are the three that I would use the most right same with on the front
page I also like to keep my front page just very minimal in terms of actually
what I use every single day and I use pretty much all these apps every single
day yeah as you can see this is just a nice layout some people want it to be
even more minimal and don't even want like the folders and you just want to
get rid of everything I recommend that but for me I find this to be very
helpful all the apps that I use the most are on the right and then I have the
folders on the left so I love that strategy the next tip is obviously to
just really really go through your notifications and turn off the ones that
you just don't need I actually have turned off my email notifications which
I felt like was such a helpful step just because every time I would get a little
ding even if I was in the middle of something I would just look over and
it's like I couldn't help but want to respond or at least start thinking about
it in that moment and that was just not healthy and it was way too much clutter
so just not a good so go through and turn off notifications
for things that you don't need immediate notifications for and that was the leads
to my next tip which is to use the Do Not Disturb feature on your phone when
you're driving when you're sleeping working out or focusing on any work
project that you just like don't want to see any notifications for so in order to
do that you literally just pull down this tab and click on this moon or if
you don't have it in your main Notification Center then you can just go
to your settings and type in Do Not Disturb and you can toggle it on right
there last but not least I think that there's a big elephant in the room and
that is your camera roll ladies and gentlemen your photos your videos that
is something that takes up some of the most orange on your phone and can just
be feel like such clutter if I go to my photos right now I quite literally up
32,000 photos and videos so I made an entire video on how to declutter your
camera roll I'll link it down below but long story short it's so important to go
through and just delete all duplicate photos anything blurry videos you don't
need and something you can do also if you just want to offload stuff on your
phone go upload all of your photos and stuff to an external drive or to you
know some other storage platform and that way you can delete them off your
phone and not have 32,000 freaking photos also remember to often times
check your recently deleted folder because that often has a bunch of photos
and videos that are still there but you can actually delete all of those and
it'll free up storage as well are you guys so that is how to declutter your
phone I know there are so many more things we can get into with decluttering
and just with your digital life so let me know if you guys have any suggestions
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