Collaborate Disseminate
This morning, I finished cleaning up the photo collection I fully consolidated last week after several months of work. It’s time to reflect on an awful job that, in many ways, will never really be done: I still have scanned photos to organize and incor… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Photo Consolidation by the Numbers (Premium)
With my photo collection consolidation project finally completed after several months of work, it was time to move on to the next steps: Cleaning up the photos (which involved ensuring that all of the photos have reasonably good “Date taken” meta-data,… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Tagging, Deduping, and Replicating the Photo Collection (Premium)
I thought I was winding down major combat operations in my photo consolidation project in early January. At the time, I had consolidated all three of my overlapping photo collections into a single master collection, and thanks to my growing experience … Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Photo Consolidation Mission Accomplished (Premium)
Dumped unceremoniously into 2024, this feels like a good time to look back at the digital decluttering work I took on last year, provide a progress update, and then look ahead to what I hope to accomplish in the new year.
I originally expected my 2023 … Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Resolutions (Premium)
In late November, I discussed my new strategy for consolidating my three photo collections into a single archive that I would then replicate to multiple locations. This past Saturday, a bit over two weeks later, I finally finished the first phase of th… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Photo Collection Consolidated Through 2012 (Premium)
Back in November, I wrote about an unexpected change at Google Workspace by which the firm no longer allows individual accounts on Workspace Business Starter to purchase additional storage. I would simply upgrade my primary account, paul@thurrott.com t… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: More Accounts and Photo Collection Consolidation Progress (Premium)
The kids—who are both adults now—were home for Thanksgiving and so I finally asked them about the digital photo collection as part of a conversation about the work my wife and I have done over the years to downsize and that I have done, especially … Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Photo Collection Consolidation is Back on Track (Premium)
After I finally ran into a wall—really, multiple walls—with this year’s digital decluttering efforts, I scaled back my short-term goals and recalibrated. And I created a set of to-do lists so that I could keep track of what I needed to complete bef… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Photo Collection Successes and Defeats (Premium)
As I wrote in Digital Decluttering: Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned (Premium), I ran into multiple roadblocks while juggling far too many projects, so I scaled back my ambitions and came up with a slightly more reasonable goal: I would try to complete t… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Taking It On the Road (Premium)
Flush with my decluttering success, I ended up trying to do too much at once and made too many mistakes, causing me to run up against multiple blockers across each project, halting my progress. And so I am scaling back my unrealistic expectations, reth… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned (Premium)