![]() If you go to your Facebook settings, you can turn off excess notifications by selecting to receive “Only notifications about your account, security and privacy”, as pictured below.ĭo you really need to be Facebook friends with all 600 people from your high school graduating class? Or the person you sat next to in your first college biology class that you haven’t spoken with in 6+ years? Probably not.Ĭlear up your feed by unfriending anyone you haven’t communicated with in a few years, or whose updates you find annoying. I encourage you to turn off all notifications on your social media, and breathe a little easier knowing they aren’t cluttering your inbox! There are literally over 30 different actions to be notified about on Facebook alone, not to mention all of the other social media channels you could be receiving notifications from. You really don’t need to receive an email alert every time someone posts on your timeline, pokes you, comments on your photo, etc, etc, etc. I find Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to be the biggest culprits of cluttering inboxes with constant notifications. Definitely give this one a try if you have a love affair with keeping way too many tabs open at once! 3. I tend to need several tabs open at one time for all of my freelance work, because I often need to pop around for all the different elements I need, but there is definitely no reason for me to have more than 4 tabs open at any given time.Įver since setting the 4 tab limit for myself, I have found my computer to process much more quickly and also don’t get sidetracked as easily while working. He took one look at my computer and noticed the 17 – yes, 17! tabs I had open in my browser and told me that was my culprit. I was actually complaining just the other week to my hubby about how my computer has been acting so slow lately (it’s a 6-year-old laptop), so I was thinking that I was due for a new one. Unless it’s something you might need for tax purposes or sentimental reasons, it’s a safe bet that if you haven’t used it in a year, you probably won’t ever need to use it. on your computer and delete anything that hasn’t been touched in more than a year. Go through all of your files – every single type of document, image, etc. I just recently did this and realized that I was holding onto a ton of files that I hadn’t opened up in years and it cleaned up so much space on my computer! Today I’m sharing some of my top tips to beat the digital clutter beast in your own life, and I truly hope you find it helpful! 9 ways to declutter your digital life: 1. It’s very easy to become overwhelmed by too many documents glaring at you on your computer desktop, your inbox being overtaken with unnecessary emails, or your social media being a bit too social with all of its constant notifications. ![]() While I love the idea of going digital with everything to keep my life feeling a bit more simplified, the truth is that digital clutter can be just as worse as having paper clutter everywhere. ![]() A big thank you to Unroll.Me for sponsoring this post! All opinions are 100% my own. ![]()
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