Cutting computer clutter
I’m trying to fight clutter in my home, and it makes sense that I should try to eliminate clutter in my computer time, as well. I spend a lot of time on my PC–blogging, paying bills, working, keeping up with friends, shopping, etc., that I really need to streamline my time.
I’ve decided to reduce the amount of email that shows up in my inbox. I’m subscribed to a lot of random newsletters, and I usually delete them or quickly skim them upon arrival.
Sure, it doesn’t take that long to click the “delete” button, but if I see that I have a new message, I might get sidetracked long enough to stop and see what it is, and waste even more time.
So, I’m going to start unsubscribing from any and all email lists that don’t interest me. It takes a little longer to unsubscribe, but I hope that this will pay off for me in the near future.
Secondly, I’m unsubscribing from even more blogs in my feed reader. I chopped a ton of blogs from Google Reader not long ago, and it felt great! Today, I got rid of eight more that no longer inspire me (or blogs that are no longer active).
Finally, I organized the icons on my desktop. I sorted through the miscellaneous document and filed it where appropriate. It’s much cleaner now.
Subscribe to RSS Feed
I’ve been doing that, too. Whenever I see a promotion or email from something I don’t need or use regularly, I try to unsubscribe to them. I’ve been doing it with my RSS Reader, too. Unfortunately, so far, the blogs I’ve discontinued reading are the ones that don’t post often, so my number of daily new items hasn’t really decreased. Oh, well — I’ll just keep the organization up!
i’ve tagged you for a meme, in case you’d like to participate. Hope you’re having an awesome afternoon!