With everything going digital, our lives have become more dependent on the electronic gadgets and especially on smartphones and laptops. And it's high time that we organize our lives to increase our productivity, the same way our smartphone require to be decluttered to maximize its functioning.
So, the overall credit goes to Marie Kondo who introduced the concept of decluttering. She is a Japanese organizing consultant, author and a TV host. Her basic idea about decluttering is that "discard everything that does not spark joy". Her best-selling book " Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up " explains all about organizing and now this book is also a popular Netflix show called, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.
The simplest way to organize and declutter a smartphone based on Konmari method is explained below:
1. Uninstall unnecessary Apps
How many times does it happen with you that you download an app and don't use it frequently or maybe you just stop using it? Cleaning out such apps that are no longer useful to you not only cleans out the space in your phone's memory but also makes it work faster and hassle fee.
But who is having time to go through all the apps just to find out an app which is not useful to us?
Well with the advancement of technology, you need not to worry about it as there are plenty of methods to make this happen. In almost all the androids there is an option of "application management" from where you can track your apps usage...,on the basis of frequency and time. And if this option is not available in your phone you can also download apps for this purpose like: Quality Time.
Apart from this, once in at least 15 days you can go through your phone to clear the cache memory, duplicate files, junk files etc.
2. Make separate folders for organizing apps
Creating separate folders makes it more easier to access the things in time. You can make folders and organize your apps based on the usage, or by category or alphabetically, whatever eases you. I find it easy to keep my most important apps on the home screen like: Gmail and Chrome and the other stuff in separate folders based on category.
It's completely up to you which way you choose to organize your things and make your life more easy based on Konmari method.
3. Make use of Cloud storage for backup
This is quite self-explanatory that you can backup your photos on Google Photos and all your files in Google Drive in android phones. But what after that, yes then even if you delete all those backed up files and photos, they will remain in that cloud stoarge and you can access them anytime.
Some of the best cloud services in 2020 are: Cloud Services .
4. Organize your notes
As we all know, notepad is also one of the most frequently used applications or features in smartphones. Like earlier, my notes list used to be unorganized and messy and to extract the important notes out of that mess was such an irritating work to do. How many of you go through this..?
Here are some of the tips to manage your notes list are:
- Make labels: This is an easy and effective technique to use where you can use labels to organize your notes like.., #Personal, # Work, # College...etc.
- Go colorful: In addition to labels, start using different colors to distinguish things easily.
- Pin it: Another option that you can opt for is to pin some of the important notes to access them easily.
- Archive the unused: As the name suggests, archive those notes that you don't find useful at the moment but may need in future. Doing this will make your current list of notes look quite tidy and ordered.
- Set Reminders: This is an amazing feature to use, it helps you complete your tasks on the go by reminding you of doing them. Like, if you're busy in your work at office, college or at any place and forget to do an important call or a mail for this you can use these reminders and they will simply save you from being irresponsible in the eyes of someone else.
5. Manage your Email Inbox
How many of you get stressed with those unnecessary emails? Well we all do this and it's normal too. Here are the tricks and tips to get out of it:
- Unsubscribe from all those emails that no longer are important to you.
- Create labels to keep your emails organized and you can even use colors for more clarity.
6. Simplify your You tube Subscriptions
If you ask me I have more than 30 subscriptions in my YouTube app and whenever I open my YouTube Subscribed channels list, it shows the name of each and every channel. Sometimes it also becomes so frustrating to find the channel in that whole list and when we also don't remember it by name. To tackle this there is a chrome extension called PocketTube. I personally find it very useful to manage YouTube subscriptions as it allows me to make folders and sort out the channels very easily.
I highly recommend this for you to give it a try: PocketTube.
7. Turn off Notifications
Okay, so how many times it happens with you that when you access the Internet you're flooded with notifications from different applications. Many a times it happens that a lot of notifications are of no use to us. So, yes just immediately go and turn off those unnecessary notifications and make your phone hassle-free.
Always keep in my mind organization isn't about perfection, it's about efficiency, reducing stress and saving time and money to improve the overall quality of life. So once in a month just give a complete clean-up to your phone to make it more smart and simplify your life also !!
Happy Learning !!
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