we can set up the right robust systems, transition all of our data to the cloud, automate some processes and even established a healthy relationship with our technology, but how do we make sure all of that lasts? How do we truly create digital order that lasts the test of time, workplace noise and human fallibility through digital minimalism, productivity thought leader cal Newport has provided us with a working definition for digital minimalism, a philosophy that helps you question what digital communication tools and behaviors surrounding these tools add the most value to your life. Newport explains. It is motivated by the belief that intentionally and aggressively clearing away low value digital noise and optimizing your use of the tools that really matter can significantly improve your life. In his book digital minimalism, choosing a focused life in a noisy world and on his blog Newport makes a strong case for the benefits of radically reducing the time we spend online. He outlines...

several core principles of digital minimalism, including Missing out is not negative and less can be more. Digital clutter is stressful, attention is scarce and fragile, many of the best uses of the online world support better living offline and be wary of tools that solve a problem that didn't exist before the tool. These principles are foundational to the hands on implementation. We will do later on. They are important and they help answer many of the wise surrounding digital organization but the next question on our digital organization journey is how how do we actually implement these principles of digital minimalism by using our number one strategy for achieving digital order. Everything needs to have a place. This idea inspired by world renowned tiding expert Marie kondo is absolutely foundational to the digital decluttering method. You will learn in this course and if it works for organizing the homes of millions of busy families, it will definitely work for organizing your digital life at its core. The idea is simple. Every component of your digital life should have a distinct home, a location for the master version of the file, ideally as we've mentioned before, this home is centrally located in the cloud. This ensures no duplicate or lost files, eliminating confusion and reducing anxiety. Here's an example if you have some passwords on an app, some in your phone notes, some saved in your browser's password manager and still others on a google doc. You will constantly be wasting time on logging into websites. This is something that should be really basic but all too often sucks up people's time with trying different logins, hunting for old passwords and doing password resets, not to mention the massive security threat that randomly storing unencrypted passwords represents. Instead all of your passwords should be stored in a single encrypted app. That app can be sync across devices so that you can access it anywhere, but there will only be one home for your passwords. That's a pretty straightforward example but you might be thinking what about something more complicated like my photos, are you saying that I should only have my photos on one device? If you're like most people, you may have some photos on your phone, some on your computer, some backed up onto the cloud and some old photos on hard drives kicking around somewhere. Not to mention those old family albums full of printed photos. What a disaster. What we are proposing instead is that the master record of your files should reside in one digital, preferably cloud based home. This master version of the file can then be sync across platforms. For example, with our cloud based approach to organization, your photos will be consolidated on a single platform, for example, ICloud or google drive and then be easily accessible from every device. Never again, will you have to guess at where a specific photo lives when you need it and never again will you have to worry about losing your photos. And by the way, if just thinking about your current photo situation, has you feeling anxious? Don't worry. We have an entire step by step lesson dedicated to helping you organize this later on when everything has just one home, you always know where everything is and you can quickly add delete or modify files. What's more, there's no longer any need to do things twice or three times or more when you add or delete a file. Once the changes are synchronized everywhere. Keep this strategy in mind as we progress through later stages of the digital centralizing and decluttering process from organizing your calendar, your contacts list and even your work documents.

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joe culver

This class is well organized and flows well. There is one thing I do NOT like is the reference to another class in the Syllabus: "Kill The Chaos of Information Overload with Evernote Webinar" The webinar has only one good tip, use Tabs in Evernote. The webinar hypes more tips if you buy the course by Charles Bird. I bought the course for $197 which was listed as a discount from a much higher price. The course is poorly assembled, out of date, and hardly worth more than a few dollars. It assembled with a bunch of short videos, each video starts after he is talking and ends before he is finished. Evernote Scanner is no longer made and Evernote no longer supports the software.

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Digital Minimalism - The #1 Strategy To Achieve Order

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11. Digital Minimalism - The #1 Strategy To Achieve Order

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Course Structure How To Succeed

What is Digital Overwhelm

Why Does It Actually Matter

The Alternative - Digital Peace of Mind

Quiz - Chapter 1

The Importance of Robust Systems

The Power of “The Cloud”

Leveraging Automation To Reduce Friction

Reestablishing A Healthy Relationship With Your Technology