Organizing Your Digital Life
Everybody’s drowning in digital data: documents, email, downloads, photos, browser bookmarks and more. How much time do you spend looking for things on your Mac or iDevice? Keeping all this stuff organized will enable you to find things more quickly, free up hard drive space, work more efficiently, and save your sanity. Let me help you get organized!
Organization isn’t half the battle — it’s nine-tenths.
FILES, FOLDERS & APPS
PHOTOS - MY SPECIALTY AND PASSION
Organization isn’t half the battle — it’s nine-tenths.
FILES, FOLDERS & APPS
- declutter Desktop
- organize documents into folders and subfolders
- add shortcuts to Sidebar
- delete outdated apps
- declutter Dock
- clean up Downloads folder
- consolidate scans
- delete old iOS backups
- use naming conventions
- inventory/consolidate old external hard drives
- delete unneeded files to free up disk space
- iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive
PHOTOS - MY SPECIALTY AND PASSION
- merge duplicates
- move photos into albums
- move albums into folders
- culling
- keywording
- smart albums
- review photos by media type
- convert live photos to regular still photos
- naming conventions for albums & folders
EMAIL
SAFARI, CHROME, FIREFOX
CALENDAR
MESSAGES
NOTES
CONTACTS
- manage spam
- mailboxes & smart mailboxes
- search strategies
- unsubscribing
- culling
- saving attachments
SAFARI, CHROME, FIREFOX
- group bookmarks into folders
- streamline favorites bar
- use Reader View
- add-ons: Adblock Plus, Feedly, Instapaper, etc.
CALENDAR
- merge calendars
- delete unused calendars
- fix glitches
- efficiency tips
MESSAGES
- culling
- backing up
- saving attachments
NOTES
- organizing
- consolidate different accounts into iCloud
- searching
- Things app as a more flexible alternative
CONTACTS
- using groups
- custom fields
- de-duplicating
