Collaborate Disseminate
I accomplished a lot in last year’s big digital decluttering push, most notably the photo collection consolidation. But it’s time to fire up the decluttering engine again. I have big plans for 2024 too.
Granted, much of this is work that I had original… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: 2024 Reset (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)
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)
Back in September, I stepped back from my grand plans to declutter my online accounts. But Google may have just forced my hand. And now I may have to implement at least part of that account transition.
Here’s what happened.
In early October, Google ema… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Online Accounts, Again (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)
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)