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"The Digital Declutter Challenge"
🕑 Added 2021-08-19 12:05:00 +0000 UTCJoshua and Ryan discuss the preponderance of digital clutter we all face, as well as the multitude of methods for addressing it, and they answer the following questions:
What are the Love People Use Things challenges? (00:00)
What is ‘cloud storage’ in terms an elderly, beloved grandmother would understand? (45:27)
What should I do with dead batteries? (46:54)
How do I appropriately curate and store my digital photographs? (52:25)
How do we determine which apps to delete? (55:12)
Is it worth it to try to salvage an email address that starts receiving multiple spam messages a day, or should I just make a new one? (58:20)
What are the best photo storage sites? (1:02:53)
Is there an app that can delete copies/multiples of photos on my smartphone? (1:06:43)
How do we responsibly recycle obsolete devices and computers? (1:10:23)
How do we create a digital heritage? (1:16:38)
How do we unsubscribe from a whole bunch of email subscriptions at one time? (1:20:18)
What should we do with old DVDs and CDs, especially those that contain films and music that we’d like to keep in some form? (1:30:12)
LINKS
App: PaperKarma
Article: Best Photo Storage and Sharing Sites
Article: Five Apps to Declutter Your Home
Article: Nine Repurposes for Obsolete and Broken Computers
Article: On Pace and Productivity
Article: Six Unroll.me Alternatives
Article: What Should I Do with Dead Batteries?
Book: A World Without Email
Book: Everything That Remains
Book: Love People, Use Things
Book: Minimalist Rulebook
Essay: Day 15
Essay: Delete 1,000 Photos in 11 Days
Essay: Let’s Talk About Being Busy
Essay: Photo-Scanning Party
Essay: Play the 30-Day Minimalism Game
Essay: Screenless Saturdays
Essay: Scrolling Is the New Smoking
Explore: Love People Use Things Challenges
Explore: Skypod
Instagram: Joshua Fields Millburn
Instagram: Jordan Moore
Instagram: Podcast Shawn
Instagram: Danny Unknwn
Meetup: Minimalist.org
Podcast: Cal Newport
Resources: The Minimalists
Subscribe: The Minimalists
Text: 937-202-4654
Tour: The Minimalists
Watch: Minimalist Home Tour | Joshua Fields Millburn
Watch: Less Is Now
MAXIMS
“Every upgrade is, in some way, a downgrade.” —Joshua Fields Millburn
“Doing less is not about the doing—it’s about the less.” —Joshua Fields Millburn
This Maximal episode corresponds with Minimal episode 301.
Comments
Cecile
Invested in Clean Email. What a great service. My brain is feeling lighter already.
Windy Yu
I wanted to update my old comment to share how I no longer own a phone, in case anyone else's phone is making them miserable (I tried for years but couldn't stop staring at the thing). I bought the oldest model cellular apple watch and set it up as standalone "phone". and its been great! I pay $10/month for the cell service, got to keep my number, and can call, text and get gps and a calendar. The old iphone is now just a disconnected ipod that stays in my car with nothing installed on it but the podcasts app (though I may end up selling it). Its a bit of an experimental set up, I realize, but a few weeks in and I couldn't be happier. The hope is that now that I made the swap, I'll never mindlessly stare at a phone again :)
I just deleted 1926 files from my desktop computer while I listened to this...now to see what else I can release.
