Is your digital life filled with too much stuff? Do you know how to organize digital life and how to organize computer files? If you are like most people with a personal computer, mobile phone, and a tablet (and maybe older computers and phones), your probably surrounding yourself with digital clutter! In this post you will learn how to declutter your digital life, you can begin to organize computer files, and take control of computer files and digital files. Learn How To Organize Your Digital Life in 6 Simple Steps below! Grab the Free printable checklist to get started organizing digital files today!
I took a poll in my Instagram & Facebook stories recently and asked my followers when was the last time they decluttered their digital life.
60% said they have NEVER decluttered their digital life.
wow.
Did you know that Digital hoarding is a thing?
Yep.
So I gave my Instagram & Facebook followers a 5-minute digital declutter challenge and here’s what they did in 5-minutes:
- Unfollowed (or muted) people and pages on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram that were no longer relevant or did not bring positivity to their feed in some way.
- Joined Unroll.me to quickly unsubscribe from junk emails to clean up their inbox.
These are just 2 simple ways to declutter your digital life. I’m including a full list below.
How To Organize Your Digital Life
Download the Free printable checklist below so you can follow these steps and declutter your digital life!
Declutter Your Inbox:
- Join Unroll.Me to quickly unsubscribe from junk email.
- If you use Gmail, switch to the Inbox Platform.
- Schedule 15-30 minutes daily to clean out messages in your inbox.
Organize Digital Photos:
- Save photos to DropBox, OneDrive, Google Photos, or Amazon Photos (You
can set your mobile phone to auto-upload your digital photos.
Take Control of Social Media:
- Unfollow/unfriend people or pages that are no longer relevant to you, are
annoying, or bring negativity in your feed). - Mark sponsored posts/ads on Facebook as irrelevant so they stop showing in
your feed. - Mute people/pages on Twitter/Facebook.
Back Up Your Computer Files:
- Before you declutter your computer, be sure to back up any photos, emails, &
files so you don’t accidentally delete something important (We use
mycloud.com).
Declutter Your Computer:
- Declutter the files/icons on your desktop screen.
- Create Main folders then Subfolders and start organizing the files you want to
keep on your computer into these folders.
Declutter other mobile Devices:
- Use the same methods for your mobile phone and computer to declutter other
mobile devices.
Use the steps above to declutter your digital life, then you will be able to organize computer files and feel the weight of digital clutter lifted from your shoulders. Declutter digital life by using the organize digital files free printable below!
How to Organize Your Home Fast
Get ready to have your mind blown. This method to organize house clutter quickly is not a new method or secret hack. Do you think the organizing pros have been keeping this secret method with how to declutter your home fast all to themselves? I think my mother used this “secret” strategy to quickly organize the house with 6 kids in the 1980’s… it’s definitely not a new way to clean a house fast… but it’s so easy that anyone with a laundry basket can do it.
My friends and family always asked me how to declutter fast because our house looks like a model home (not to brag). So I shared my secret with how to declutter a house fast with my friends and family and then they started doing this trick to quickly organize house declutter.
I bet you are dying to know how I organize my house fast with a family of 4 and a dog…
–>>Go here to learn my secret to Declutter Your Home Fast!
How to Organize Your Personal Life (Free Printable Bullet Journal Pages)
I had no clue what a bullet journal was until I did some research and found a bullet journal description to be a combined day planner/journal/diary/sketchbook/to-do list. But what I found most interesting when I started designing my bullet journal pages was that I could make each page anything I wanted it to be.
You see, there are A LOT of different planners and journals out there. Like a blogging planner, business planner, mom planner, meal planner or a gratitude journal, meditation journal, travel journal… and the list goes on and on!
I’m making it super easy for you to try bullet journalling for FREE and if you love it, then maybe you keep printing the free printable bullet journal pages or maybe you invest in a really cool journal and start posting pics of your beautiful pages on Instagram 🙂 If you could just mention that my free printables were your inspiration, that would be great 😉
–>>Go here to see (and download) the Free Printable Bullet Journal Pages!
6 Questions to Help You Organize Your Life and Get Rid of Clutter
Getting rid of the things you’ve collected during your life can be an emotional and physically draining process. Make the process easier by asking yourself 6 Questions to Help You Organize Your Life and Get Rid of Clutter.
Learn how to Organize Your Life and Get Rid of Clutter with these 6 simple questions and #getorganized for good!
If you don’t know how to declutter and simplify your home, this post with a simple 6 question checklist for decluttering your home can help. These questions can help you with organizing your life and getting rid of clutter. Getting rid of sentimental clutter is the hardest part for most individuals and these questions can help declutter your home fast. In fact, many of my readers have used this tool to learn how to clean and declutter their home in 30 days.
–>>Go here to see the full list with the 6 Questions to ask to get rid of clutter.
How to Get Rid of Unnecessary Possessions and Live the Life You Want
Stuff overload. Negative energy in your home and surroundings. Sound familiar? Are your materialistic items taking over your life? Do you want to know how to get rid of unnecessary possessions and live the life you want? I want that too… I mean, I really want to share how you can get the life you want by only keeping yourself surrounded with what matters most.
I know there are people (like you) that need REAL help getting their lives back and are stuck spinning their wheels because of the (bad) advice they find online. I’m sure you’ve seen the organizing “hacks” I’m talking about that don’t really help you eliminate things, but suggest that you need to add more things in your life in order to organize your current things.
If you organize things a certain way, that will reduce the clutter in your life, right? Wrong.
The only way to organize clutter is to get rid of it. Period.
–>>Read more about How to Get Rid of Unnecessary Possessions and Live the Life You Want here.
10 Items You Need to Organize Your Home Like a Pro
The best way to organize clutter is to get rid of the clutter right? I agree that it doesn’t make sense to spend money buying more stuff in order to get organized, but there are certain organizing items that can help create a functional, simplified home.
I’m a firm believer that it’s best to re-purpose many items around your home FIRST before investing in more stuff. Take a look around your home to see if you have similar items that you can use in place of these items (shoe boxes, plastic food containers, etc).
If you don’t find anything in your home that will help you create the organizing systems that you need, spending a few dollars on these useful organizing supplies will be worth the investment in the long run!
–>>Go Here to see the FULL list of 10 Items You Need To Organize Your Home Like a Pro!
Printable Labels to Organize Every Room in Your Home
You can organize the heck out of your home but truth is, Your Home is not completely organized until you add labels!
I’ve done the hard work for you and made every label for every space in your home.
If there is a label that you don’t see available below (for common household items), please let me know in the comments and I will add it!
–>>Go Here to Print These Labels to Organize Your Home now!
Printable Home Organizing Cheat Sheets
Need help getting your family organized? Want to learn how to declutter your home fast with kids? Do you need help simplifying all the “stuff” in your home?
Let me help with my Cheat Sheet Bundle to Simplify Your Home in 30 Days!
Right now, you can get the Simplify Your Digital Life Cheat Sheet Plus 20 more pages of printable forms, cheat sheets, and checklists to help you FINALLY get organized!
Here’s what’s included in this bundle:
- Organize Your Home in 30 Days Calendar (also available separately here*)
- Simplify Your Home in 30 Days Checklist
- 6 Questions To Ask Yourself When Decluttering Cheat Sheet
- 7 Steps To Get Your Family Organized Cheat Sheet
- 15 Steps To Get Rid Of Paper Clutter Cheat Sheet
- Simplify Your Digital Life Checklist
- Declutter Your Home Fast (The Laundry Basket Method) Cheat Sheet
- Weekly (Detailed) Meal Planning Form (also in the meal planning bundle here*)
- Weekly (Simple) Meal Planning Form (also in the meal planning bundle here*)
- Sorting Signs (ONE of each): Trash, Recycle, Shred, Sentimental
- 30 Blank Printable Home Organization Labels in SIX Different Shapes (5 labels per page) and Transparent (can be printed on ANY color cardstock)**
–>>Download the Simplify Your Home in 30 Days CHEAT SHEET bundle here!
32 Home Management Printables that REALLY Work!
No one should have to feel overwhelmed by homemaking because it costs too much or they can’t get the help they need.
When it comes to homemaking, do you ever struggle with everything on your to-do list? The cleaning, the cooking, the laundry, the organizing, the home projects… shall I keep going?
You are not alone.
Maybe you can relate to these statements:
- “I can never find the time to clean and organize”
- “I’m tired of feeding my family take-out for dinner”
- “I have no idea why we are always broke!”
- “I’m not sure how to start so I just keeping reading stuff & doing nothing”
- “I struggle with doing “all the stuff” to create a perfect home”
I’ve said all of these before by the way.
Almost all homemakers struggle with these points – whether you work outside the home or not, whether you have 0 kids or 12. Since I was struggling in these areas (and thought you might be as well), I created some encouraging and useful resources to overcome the most common homemaking struggles.
Everything you need to take your homemaking strategy to the next level is included in the Homemaking Printable Pack. I’ve been using the goodies included in the printable pack and the resources have significantly changed my home management strategy.
–>>Go here to get your copy of the Homemaking Printable Pack today!
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