30 days of ideas – 06: SpringCleanr
I’m pretty good at organising my work, and do most of the things that can be done to make sense of the deluge of information that we have to deal with these days.
My email inbox is empty at least twice a day, and I have over 400 smart filters in place to make sure I almost never receive unwanted or irrelevant messages. My computer desktop is completely free of icons, other than the one that opens up the hard drive. My files are all pretty well sorted, and I can easily locate something if I want to find it.
And yet… my hard drive is nearly full. And to a large extent, I don’t exactly know what it’s full of. To make matters worse, this is a machine with a 1TB internal hard drive. I have a lot of files – photos, music, video, and lots and lots of documents… but I’m pretty sure I don’t need them all.
I need to do a complete Spring clean and de-clutter – but it’s such a daunting task. It would be great if there was a piece of software that would help me go through my documents, and choose what to keep on hand, what to throw out, and what to archive.
So that’s what I’m going to suggest today.
