With more and more daily use of smartphones, the smallest screen is a good place to start a #digital #decluttering, says The Lifestyle Files. Sort apps into folders and delete those rarely used. Limit your home screens to one or two and place the most-used apps on the first. Delete duplicate photos or those of poor quality. Clean up your contact list by eliminating any you don’t recognize or keep in touch with. Stream podcasts and music rather than storing “native” files. Limit notification access to only the most important — texts from family members, for example — and eliminate stored alerts often. #DigitalDecluttering
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Start a Digital Decluttering With Your Email Inbox
If you want to #declutter your #digital spaces, start with your #email inbox, says Life by Deanna. You might have thousands of emails in your inboxes, read and unread. Start with the inbox you use most. Unsubscribe from emails you tend not to open; you can look at those offers, alerts and blog posts when you feel like it. Search your email for brands or people that send a lot of emails, delete the ones you don’t need and empty the trash. Finally, make folders for old emails that you do want to keep #organized, whether they include financial information, notes from friends, picture attachments or receipts. #DigitalDecluttering
Is It Time for a Digital Detox?
With social media algorithms pushing content to your accounts and demanding attention constantly, you may need more than a #digital #decluttering — you may need a digital #detox. Create boundaries, says Simple Thread. Schedule screen time and a time when you can be tech-free. Turn off notifications. Delete unused or rarely used apps. Leave your phone in a different room or somewhere other than your pocket to ensure you won’t check it. Plan tech-free activities. Finally, get an alarm clock to wake up rather than using your phone to ensure you don’t get sucked into screen time first-thing. #DigitalDecluttering #DigitalDetox
Create a System to Cut Your Digital Clutter
It’s easy to gather #digital #clutter — thousands of photos, downloads, emails and other files that just get in the way of what you’re currently working on, eat up storage space and slow your operating system. To keep phones, laptops and other equipment running smoothly, create a system to handle those countless bits of data, says Be More With Less. Use your apps or operating system to find files and sort them into places you can access quickly. Delete duplicate files, old emails and inessential photos. Archive the stuff you might need “someday.” The goal is an intuitive system that keeps useful files front-and-center and digital clutter out of the way. #DigitalDecluttering
Help Your Mom Become More Minimalist
If you really want to impress a #minimalist #mom, help her #declutter and #organize for #Mother’s Day. She can choose the areas to target; the important part is that you help her edit the #stuff in that space down to the essentials and get rid of the rest. If you find any lightly used goods Mom no longer needs, consider holding a #garage or #tag sale and use the proceeds to take her out to dinner — or #donate that extra #junk to ClothingDonations.org by scheduling a #free #donation #pickup. A Mother’s Day #decluttering can keep Mom happy for weeks and months to come! #MothersDay