How Do You Stop Being A Digital Packrat?
Diagnose thyself digital packrat. One or more of these symptoms will likely mean you are a digital packrat: • • Do you have 20 or more folders and sub-folders in your documents folder on your hard drive? • Is your list of Internet bookmarks long and overwhelming? • Is your email program nearly full, or do you use more than one email account because of all the storage you need? • Do you have multiple duplicates of photos, and is it hard to find a photo you need? • Is your hard drive 75% full or more? • Do you have multiple accounts for similar things, making it hard to find stuff? • Are any of your digital file systems overwhelming? • Do you have email from 5 years ago? • Do you have project files from 2 years ago? • Do you have folders of stuff to read that would take a year to actually read? • Go through a massive purge. In the beginning, you’ll need to devote some time to purging files. Thirty minutes a day is a good time — put it in your calendar, and just spend 30 minutes purging e
