{"id":710,"date":"2018-07-16T13:08:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T17:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyricwell.com\/blog\/?p=710"},"modified":"2024-11-16T20:56:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T01:56:05","slug":"cleaning-up-digital-clutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyricwell.com\/blog\/cleaning-up-digital-clutter\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning up Digital Clutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently started cleaning up my inboxes. They were full of hundreds of emails that I either never opened or planned to follow-up on didn&#8217;t. They&#8217;re not completely cleared out, but I&#8217;m making progress.<\/p>\n<h2>Things I Clean Up<\/h2>\n<p>With the amount of information that comes in daily, it&#8217;s necessary for me to clean things up regularly. Along with email, I also like to clean up the list of podcasts I listen to in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shiftyjelly.com\/pocketcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PocketCasts<\/a> and the blog posts I have in <a href=\"https:\/\/feedly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Feedly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>What to Keep<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure why, but it&#8217;s hard for me to delete things that seem like they contain useful information. In order to overcome my FOMO, I have to decide whether the information is useful now or later. If it&#8217;s useful now, it&#8217;s worth reading now. If it&#8217;s not useful now, I need to have the\u00a0confidence that I can find the information later when I need it so it&#8217;s safe to clean up now. It&#8217;s always available in archived email search or a Google search. I mean really, when is the last time I couldn&#8217;t find the information I needed? There&#8217;s usually too much info available.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s freeing to have a clean inbox. Without all those things I &#8220;should&#8221; be reading\/hearing\/responding to, I have more time to <a href=\"\/blog\/finishing-songs-with-focus\/\">focus<\/a> on my goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently started cleaning up my inboxes. They were full of hundreds of emails that I either never opened or planned to follow-up on didn&#8217;t. They&#8217;re not completely cleared out, but I&#8217;m making progress. 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