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Lesson 35 from: Digital Declutter: Organizing Your Digital Life

Jonathan Levi & Maya Yizhaky

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Lesson Info

35. Saving Sites

Lessons

Class Trailer

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

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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
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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
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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

Saving Sites

sometimes it's the little things that make all the difference. One of my favorite quick win digital decluttering areas is saving sites and bookmarking. That's because we can transform this area from a digital disaster zone to an efficient and beneficial life enhancing tool in a matter of minutes. Why do we need to take a critical look at how we are saving sites? Well the very nature of the internet has encouraged our attention to grow ever more fragmented and our inquiries have become endless. After all, we can now get the answer to practically any fact based question with just a few google searches. Trust me I get it. I've gone down the Wikipedia wormhole hundreds of times myself For better or for worse. I know more about 1970s cults than most people and we're not telling you to stop researching, enquiring and being curious the opposite. In fact we just want to aid your curiosity, quests, your curiosity and specific interests, passions and areas of knowledge are part of what makes you...

you the sites you browse, the news, you read the scientific findings, you tune into all of that is a reflection of your specific imprint on the world and since your imprint is vast it's helpful if you find a way for you to sustainably and effortlessly manage it. I've seen clients try dozens of different approaches to try and keep their sights organized everything from exploding bookmark bars, notes with links and emails to themselves. Some people have just plain given up and always have 30 plus tabs open at once, slowing down their computer and visually cluttering their screens. It's the equivalent of sitting down to write a paper but having 30 posters of your favorite movies, musicians and news sites littered all over your desk, getting yourself to sit down and work is hard enough doing so while also facing a bunch of way more interesting and fun things is near impossible. So what's a curious person to do? Try using a sites saver. My favorite by far is definitely a pocket. That's because pocket was actually created with this very purpose in mind to help people save interesting articles, videos and more from the web. For later enjoyment, you can save sites to pocket with literally one click and once a site is saved, your list of content is visible on any device, phone, tablet or computer. What happens when you start accumulating hundreds or even thousands of sites, pockets search functionalities are quite robust And I'm able to find old articles about 95% of the time. It also has tagging functions, which can be helpful if you're researching for a specific project. Alternatively, if you prefer to not add one more app to the mix will remind you that Evernote has an awesome web clipper that can save an entire website, the simplified site or article and more as a reminder, you can probably also say fewer notes. Now that your notes collection is properly set up if you're saving articles because of a specific quote or two, you can just copy those into your notes collection. Now you may still be wondering why not just stick with the traditional bookmark bar, which can also sync across devices. Well you can but this does add visual clutter and again, a ton of destruction In my own bookmark bar. I tend to only keep four sites, ones that I actually want to access regularly. My calendar, email, local yoga studio schedule and whatever project I'm currently working on this works for me right now and it will probably change again in the same way I do encourage you to play around and figure out with what works best for you for most people, that's going to be some version of keeping a few key sites on your bookmarks bar and having everything else on a site saving app like pocket one more thing. We do recognize that how we research sort through and process information differs from person to person. Someone with an indifferent intuitive type may even thrive with a ton of sites open at once and this kind of visual stimulation may even encourage new neural pathways, but for most people, deep work is impossible if we have other sites open cal Newport has strict terms on this for him for a session to count as deep work, there must be zero distractions. He explains that even a quick glance at your phone or email inbox can significantly reduce your performance due to the cost of context switching. So our point here is simple. Take this time now to think about the types of information you are taking in each day and how you go about accessing and re accessing this. Try out a sight saving Ablett pocket. And if it's working for you, think about clearing out your overloaded bookmark bar. Part of our human nature is to be curious and you want a way to save sites that both encourages you and honors your curiosity while also allowing you to maintain focus and get things done. Remember in the age of digital distraction, it's up to you to own your time.

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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