Collaborate Disseminate
This is a big one.
Like many of the other digital decluttering tasks I’m taking on this year, reorganizing my online accounts was long overdue. And for some of the same reasons. Key among them is that doing so can be complicated and time-consuming, esp… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Online Accounts (Premium)
This article series was inspired by our move from a large house into a small apartment and the amount of decluttering we needed to do in its wake. I had thought that I was good at decluttering, but what I came to understand is that what I was really do… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Detail Work, Final Paper Scans (Premium)
I take far more personal photos than videos, but we also have a collection of home videos that were created with a variety of analog and digital cameras over the years before we moved to smartphones. Most of these videos were created in the very early … Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Home Videos (Premium)
I am a lifelong music fan, and while there were many amazing advances to the ways we enjoy, curate, and share music over my lifetime, the advent of digital music in the late 1990s changed everything.
Well, not overnight: at the time, my friends and I w… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Music Collection (Premium)
As you may recall, I wrote last week that I had essentially finished organizing and decluttering my documents archives. But at that point, it was only in two places, one temporary: OneDrive, and then the locally synced copy on the laptop I was using. S… Continue reading Digital Declutter: Finish Work, Final Scans, and a Peek at the Future (Premium)
I can’t believe I’m writing these words, but I have completely archived what was previously an enormous amount of digital clutter across OneDrive and my NAS. In doing so, I have reduced my OneDrive storage usage by over 160 GB, and I am seeing even big… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Documents Archive Complete (Premium)
As part of a grueling summer in concrete construction the summer after I graduated from high school in 1985, I built a wall. And not just any wall, but a concrete wall surrounding a field for horses that was molded using a Styrofoam “foam form” that wo… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: For the Love of NAS (Premium)
Over the weekend, I was able to dramatically reduce the file size of my pre-Thurrott.com archives, which dropped from 116 GB to about 48 GB.
At a high level, this work resembled what I did with my loose photos and scans: I assessed what I had, volume- … Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Tackling the Document Archive (Premium)
Two weeks ago, I started the time-consuming process of organizing, tagging, and archiving over 21 GB of scanned photos as part of a new digital decluttering initiative. Today, I am happy to report that I’ve concluded that work, and less happy to report… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Some Photo Progress, and a Shift to Documents (Premium)
Back in May, I wrote about some of the decluttering work we did when we sold our house and moved into an apartment, and while I noted that there were lingering physical items to declutter, I omitted two important and onerous additional tasks I still ne… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Back in the Saddle Again (Premium)