Clean Up Your Computer | GTD®
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times with David Allen
Clean Up Your Computer
Now if you haven't done this already, and you have some down time, or at home time, or whatever. Then, come on guys, it's like when you get your car washed, or your motorcycle washed, or whatever, it drives better. Well very much the same thing with your computer. Come on, this is like a master tool if you're doing any kind of knowledge work at all. This is reference, this is creativity, this is communications. This is your work. And so it's really nice to make sure that this doesn't become like a black hole. It starts to get clogged up with a lot of old stuff. The more old stuff I found that accumulate in my computer the less anxious, or the less interested I am in looking back for something or going back into that area. But there's a lot of creativity that will show up if you actually do that. Like email, what's your backlog? The bigger your backlog of email, the more any kind of change or surprise is going to be bothersome, even the good stuff. So clean up email. There's a lot of tips you'll see on my RUclips channel about just dealing with email and that backlog. I met somebody with thousands of Evernote notes in there, that they never looked at. As they said it's kinda write-only, as opposed to read-only. You stick stuff in, but you never then get back to it. So it's very important that your reference material, and all that stuff, as best you can, is just brought current. So maybe there's stuff you need to move into the cloud, stuff you need to put into Dropbox. Things you need to reorganize, or reframe, or refresh, or whatever. But a real good idea to just look around, and if you've got some down time, one of the best kind of dummy things to do, is clean up. Clean up your digital world. It will help a ton.
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One tip I use for staying on top of files stored on my computer: don't use the desktop or the downloads folder. Set your browser to ask where to put downloaded files so that you are forced to organize files as they come in, and turn off desktop icons (which is easier on Windows than MacOS). By not using these catch-all folders, I find that my files stay much better organized without the need for constant inventory.
Thats right. Cleaned my evernote from 2600 Notes to 250. great Tip
Ben Biedenkopf - how? How did you clean out over 2,000 notes from your Evernote file?
Similar to how one can clean out his email inbox?
Everything that i havent touched the last 18 months, deletet
@@benbiedenkopf8623 -- Wow. Hmmm. Quick and easy. Drastic. Happy with having done it?
Why? If you have an Archive foulder, put old notes in there. Why delete them? They don't use space, they don't distract, but they can easy be found by the search function.
How did you deal with DISTRACTION?