![]() It might seem hard to start with but you'll feel great when it's done. This could be anything from a weekend to a 30 day stint but it's time to detox your digital life. Pick a time period and remove unneccessary social media and phone use. This exercise is all about removing unneccessary things like mindless Facebook scrolling, notifcations that give nothing to your life and 100+ Black Friday emails from stores you'll never shop at. This isn't a total detox forever and we're not saying you can't use your phone. We probably all need email, especially if you use it for work, online banking, grocery shopping etc. Go through all of your files and downloads and simply get rid of what you don't need or want to keep and file the rest in a way future you will be thankful for. This one might take a while if you're a prime digital hoarder but trust us, it's worth it. This is a new game for all the thousands of documents, images and forms we all have on our laptops on our desktops or in download folders. Whether it's by colour or by topic - get sorting. Then, once you've had your clear out, think about organising the apps that you have left. If you only ever use one food delivery app, delete the others! Be ruthless, you can always download them again if you *truly* miss them. Our phones can get so cluttered with unneeded and mostly one-time use apps and it's time to break free. It's getting rhyme-y up in here so we must mean business. Yep - all of those self-help and positivity podcasts that you don't listen to because you purely listen to food podcasts? Give in and delete them - save yourself the space on your phone and let yourself be the listener that you naturally are. Plus, once they're organised you might want to actually print some out and add them around your home. Some email apps have bulk unsubscribe or will even prompt you to unsubscribe from an email you haven't read in a few weeks - take their hint!ĭelete the screenshots of restaurant menus you don't need and the aisle numbers of things you need to pick up in IKEA - you don't need these! Then, file the ones that you do want to keep with a photo-sorting app - there's tonnes of these on app stores so you can choose whichever one you fancy. Or, even worse the ones you just leave in your inbox unopened. Get rid of emails that you know you delete every day or every week anyway. This'll be the best, or the worst bit depending on what type of person you are! The hard work starts now. Physical clutter can get in the way, make our homes feel untidy and generally put pressure on our everyday lives and digital clutter is exactly the same but, it's all stored in one little place that we look at multiple times a day - reminding us that it's still there! With so many emails, passwords, podcasts and subscriptions mounting up managing our phones and laptop can become a full time job - here's how to declutter your online and digital life. Have we taken the time to downsize our digital lives again now lots of elements of 'normality' are back in our lives and we no longer need so much solo-entertainment or social media? ![]() ![]() The pandemic offered us all more free time and many of us decluttered every cupboard in our homes but, our digital clutter must have doubled (or worse!) in size? We were all online much more than we usually were over the past two years so there must be a backlog of unlistened to podcast episodes, unopened emails and apps that no longer get used - Houseparty anyone? ![]()
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