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Get A Grip On Your Subscriptions

Lesson 19 from: Digital Declutter: Organizing Your Digital Life

Jonathan Levi & Maya Yizhaky

Get A Grip On Your Subscriptions

Lesson 19 from: Digital Declutter: Organizing Your Digital Life

Jonathan Levi & Maya Yizhaky

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Lesson Info

19. Get A Grip On Your Subscriptions

Lessons

Class Trailer

Chapter 1:Introductions, Foundations, & Setting Up For Success

1

Download The PDF Syllabus

00:28
2

Course Structure How To Succeed

05:43
3

What is Digital Overwhelm

04:17
4

Why Does It Actually Matter

07:06
5

The Alternative - Digital Peace of Mind

02:31
6

Quiz - Chapter 1

Chapter 2: The Fundamentals To Digital Peace of Mind

7

The Importance of Robust Systems

05:41
8

The Power of “The Cloud”

03:30
9

Leveraging Automation To Reduce Friction

04:55
10

Reestablishing A Healthy Relationship With Your Technology

05:47
11

Digital Minimalism - The #1 Strategy To Achieve Order

04:57
12

What Intuitive Organizational Type Are You

04:28
13

What To Do When “Life Happens”

03:27
14

Quiz - Chapter 2

Chapter 3: Regaining Control: Taming Your Inbox

15

Wrangling All Of Your Email Accounts

04:56
16

Inbox vs. Archive - Achieving Inbox Freedom

04:07
17

The Machete - Cutting Down Your Overloaded Inbox

03:41
18

The Scalpel - Strategically Cutting Down The Rest Of Your Inbox

06:58
19

Get A Grip On Your Subscriptions

04:35
20

Starting Fresh - Creating Your Own Structure

07:25
21

What Happens Next - Beginner’s Inbox Organization

08:40
22

Let’s Get Ninja - Advanced Inbox Organization

08:02
23

Quiz - Chapter 3

Chapter 4: Everything Else: The Basics of Digital Order

24

Enabling Back-Ups

10:02
25

Calendar

12:24
26

Choosing & Using A “To-Do” List

09:23
27

Neat Notes Snippets

11:59
28

Syncing and Organizing Documents

10:00
29

Downloads Folder

03:49
30

Conquering Your Contacts List

11:08
31

Securely & Safely Storing Passwords

09:00
32

Scan It, Send It

04:55
33

Managing Legacy File Storage

04:46
34

Quiz - Chapter 4

Chapter 5: Managing Your Media

35

Saving Sites

05:16
36

Cross-Device Syncing of Photos & Videos

06:45
37

Keeping Your Music Organized

07:57
38

Books and Reading Materials

05:18
39

Quiz - Chapter 5

Chapter 6: Conclusion

40

Self-Assessment & Success Moving Forward

05:47
41

Congratulations & What We’ve Learned

01:42
42

Bonus - How To Take Your Digital Decluttering To The Next Level

00:27

Final Quiz

43

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

Get A Grip On Your Subscriptions

quieting your inbox means decluttering past emails and using archive and search operator functionalities to delete and archive old emails. But deep lasting decluttering also means reducing the incoming volume of communications. One of the most efficient ways to do this is by getting a grip on your subscriptions. You have a few options for unsubscribing from emails and lizards that are no longer relevant or just clog up your inbox. Unroll me is a free tool you can use to mass unsubscribe from emails. It scans your entire inbox automatically and then allows you to instantly see a list of all of your subscription emails from there with a simple click of a button. You can unsubscribe, keep them in your in box or choose to roll up your subscriptions into one convenient daily summary email because of this feature and the ability to see all of your subscriptions in one place. Enroll me as a favorite for many people and I know that Jonathan swears by it so you may want to try it out when you d...

o go through enrollment is full List of your current subscriptions. Try and be extra critical if something isn't making your life better in some way. Now is the time to cut it or at the very least roll it up. So you don't have to archive it every time because enroll me is a free service. There is a trade off. Unroll me openly discloses that they use their customer data to build anonymized market research data. The company does say that it strips away personal information but because of this, not everyone will want to use their service. Another way to unsubscribe is just by manually unsubscribing, basically clicking the links in the emails themselves, assuming that the center is compliant with the I can spam act and actually unsubscribed. You gmail and apple mail both have a button to make this process easier for you. If you choose to go this route, you can pull up all of your emails from the past few months and unsubscribe 1x1. It won't take you long to figure out the repeat offenders, But in some cases people have as many as 1000 email subscriptions. So block off a chunk of time. If you go this route, the third option for the more tech savvy among us there is an open source alternative called gmail. Unsubscribe, which you can install as a google script. No third party will have access to your data but there are a few steps to configure the script. So what do we recommend for users of this course for the majority of people, we suggest that you use unroll me for a massive one time. Clean up too quickly delete hundreds of subscriptions at once. Once you're done. If you don't feel comfortable with your anonymous data being continually used for marketing, you can delete the app by logging on to enroll me, going to settings and hitting delete my account. This will also deactivate your roll up. So emails that were previously rolled up will now arrive directly to your inbox. You can take another step to completely remove. Enroll means access to your account by logging on to your google account. Then security. Then third party apps with account access and removing. Unroll me from the list of connected apps. And while you're at it remove access from any other third party apps that you no longer want to have access to your account from then on you can manually unsubscribe from any new emails that come your way. It may take a few weeks to totally catch them all. They are sneaky little buggers by the way, here's a really fun and ninja hack for those of you who just love to sign up for new newsletters with gmail and many other email providers, you have the ability to create an endless number of new email addresses right within your email instantly by simply adding a plus sign after your email but before the at sign anything you put in will still arrive to your normal inbox. This means that using search operators in the future, you can filter and find only emails that were sent to one of your dummy email addresses. A great way to use this is to add the words, subscriptions or newsletters to your email address when subscribing to new things. For example Maya plus subscriptions at gmail dot com. Some people even like to make a new dummy email for each place they sign up to see if that place is selling their email to spammers. Best of all. Later on, we can set up automated filters for each of these dumb emails if needed. Unsubscribing from or rolling up emails helps us to anticipate and prevent future clutter. Once you take these steps, we will be ready for our next inbox freedom step setting up your new system.

Class Materials

Bonus Materials with Purchase

Course Syllabus
Worksheet - Exploring Your Intuitive Organizational Type
Worksheet - Surveying Your Digital Landscape
Worksheet - Email Account Triage

Ratings and Reviews

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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