More than giving up Facebook for a month or two. It’s more than just organizing your files or purging your email. #Jing screenie fullBut in a world full of tech and information streams and social media, what does digital minimalism look like? There are Instagram feeds and Facebook groups devoted to decluttering your kitchen, your closet, any part of your house. The minimalists out there say the way there is through less stuff and more intention. Questions? Let me know! Otherwise, I’ll see you next time! It’s a great tool to try as we work on digital minimalism. I’ve written an App Review on RescueTime before, which you can find here: App Review – RescueTimeĬheck it out. #Jing screenie softwareThe software allows me to see, for example, that I spent 15 minutes playing Alien Hive on my phone last night when I could swear it was only a couple of minutes before bedtime. We all get caught up sometimes, and the first part of minimizing your digital use is figuring out how you actually use your time. I use a great software called RescueTime that tracks your digital activity across all devices it is installed on – phone, computer, Internet, and tablet. How many times have you fallen down an Internet rabbit hole? Or turned on your phone just to kill time while waiting? This is especially true when it comes to surfing and Internet usage. It’s a great phrase because, with our digital life, so much of what we do is mindless. Rather receive these posts in your email? Head on over and sign up for the Ilios Digital Organizing newsletter!Īfter our talk last week about digital minimalism, I had a reader mention the phrase ‘attention management’ when it comes to working with intent. It’s a great way to minimize your digital clutter and work towards minimalism. Next time you’re sitting in front of the TV, or waiting in the pick-up line, find those seldom used or unnecessary apps and delete them. Just like we declutter our houses, we also need to declutter our phones. (Some of that is okay, but part of digital minimalism is acting with intent.) How many of those apps are you actually using? And have you thought about why you’re using those particular apps? Does each app have a purpose beyond ‘fun when I’m bored’? How many apps do you have? More than 20? More than 50? (approx. Not only using the apps, but scrolling and scrolling past screens of other apps to get to the one you want. Our phones are full of fun things and interesting information, but they’re also a big source of distracted time suck. #Jing screenie installWere there any surprises? Did you get a good idea of where you are spending your time when you are online? Did you look just at your computer, or did you also install RescueTime on your phone? Last time we talked about RescueTime and figuring out how much time you actually spend on your digital devices and what you’re doing when you are there. How’s it going getting started with digital minimalism? How is your journey into digital minimalism going? Any surprises? Anything I can do to support you? (How we respond is key to finding our distraction points during the day) Then we can make deliberate decisions about what stays and what goes. When minimizing notifications, it’s up to each of us to stop and think about why we need to be notified, what purpose the notification is serving, and what we do because of the notification. (That last one is a definite yes for me!)ĭigital minimalism looks different for each of us. Do you really need to be pinged when an email comes in or are you checking email on your own schedule? How about this week’s cookie notification from Crumbl? Or an alert when the litter box is full? But there are a lot of notifications we can remove from our daily schedule. Now, there are some notifications we definitely need – text messages are usually on that list, especially for parents. App notifications – both phone and computer – are an easy place to make those changes. Part of our journey towards digital minimalism involves downsizing and streamlining. I give my husband a hard time because he has email notifications on and I’ll be just about ready to fall asleep when ‘bing’, a new email from Amazon or Ebay or someone like that. Our phones go off at all hours of the day, demanding our attention. There’s always something else to do, listen to, or respond to. It can be hard to think about minimalism in the noise and rush of our busy lives.
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