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What is Digital Overwhelm

Lesson 3 from: Digital Declutter: Organizing Your Digital Life

Jonathan Levi & Maya Yizhaky

What is Digital Overwhelm

Lesson 3 from: Digital Declutter: Organizing Your Digital Life

Jonathan Levi & Maya Yizhaky

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3. What is Digital Overwhelm

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

What is Digital Overwhelm

so what is digital overwhelmed? We can understand digital overwhelmed as the combination of two ideas one, our new digital reality, the unprecedented rise of technological advancement and digital device usage and to the accompanying sensation of anxiety that it creates in us First things first since the 1970s, our world has undergone a massive digital revolution. This is the information age with digital devices serving as our touch points for so many things. These days. If you want to get something done, you probably are using your phone, your computer and the internet to make it happen our whole lives from our bank accounts to our files and even our cherished photos and media. They're all in our digital devices, our devices have made us more connected than ever before Before. I digitally de cluttered, I used to feel like I was always reachable and that everyone in my professional and personal life, not to mention advertisers and news outlets could reach me 24/7 that means that more pe...

ople than ever have a direct line to our attention Which brings us to the 2nd point. The resulting anxiety from being expected to keep up with our digital lives. We get tens, if not hundreds of emails per day, dozens of texts, facebook messages, news and app notifications. Some of these inputs are helpful and necessary but a ton of these are just digital clutter that we end up hoarding this feeling of digital overwhelmed manifests itself in different ways for different people. Some people feel perfectly calm having 20,000 emails in their inbox and others freak out when they have and even if you finally catch up on all of your texts and answer all of your emails when you start thinking about your documents, photos and backup system, you may feel like you never really get a hold of things. So how do you know if you are suffering from digital overwhelmed here are a few indicators, you have tens of thousands of emails in your inbox or in boxes, you have no idea what is backed up where or you think you may have things backed up but you're not sure what would happen if your phone or laptop got stolen tomorrow. Your phone is the first thing you interact with in the morning and the last thing you interact with at night, you're always reachable, answering emails, texts and work messages at all hours of the night at any given time you have tons of browser windows open and lots of apps on your phone, but they're actually getting in the way of your productivity, you view yourself as an active or busy person but somehow it feels like there is never enough time in the day, especially when it comes to the most critical initiatives. You're not sure you're using the right apps and plug ins for the right things, especially when it comes to getting stuff done. You have most app social media and news notifications enabled and are getting them like all the time, you feel a constant need to check your phone even during in person interactions with friends or family, you feel a tightening in your chest or back when you think about these things or any aspect of your digital life, you're reluctant to get rid of digital clutter and often end up digitally hoarding photos, documents and emails. If any of this sounds familiar, don't worry, you are not alone. What all sufferers of digital overwhelm have in common is this the sensation that their digital life has gotten out of control. We have your back and we also want you to know that this has unfortunately become the new norm. In fact, pretty much everyone I know is suffering from some kind of digital overwhelming, but just because everyone is dealing with the same issue doesn't mean it should be this way which brings us to our next lecture which will help you understand the negative consequences of digital overwhelm on your mind, body and attention

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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