Saving Sites
Lesson 35 from: Digital Declutter: Organizing Your Digital LifeJonathan Levi & Maya Yizhaky
Saving Sites
Lesson 35 from: Digital Declutter: Organizing Your Digital LifeJonathan Levi & Maya Yizhaky
Lessons
Chapter 1:Introductions, Foundations, & Setting Up For Success
1Download The PDF Syllabus
00:28 2Course Structure How To Succeed
05:43 3What is Digital Overwhelm
04:17 4Why Does It Actually Matter
07:06 5The Alternative - Digital Peace of Mind
02:31 6Quiz - Chapter 1
Chapter 2: The Fundamentals To Digital Peace of Mind
The Importance of Robust Systems
05:41 8The Power of “The Cloud”
03:30 9Leveraging Automation To Reduce Friction
04:55 10Reestablishing A Healthy Relationship With Your Technology
05:47 11Digital Minimalism - The #1 Strategy To Achieve Order
04:57 12What Intuitive Organizational Type Are You
04:28 13What To Do When “Life Happens”
03:27 14Quiz - Chapter 2
Chapter 3: Regaining Control: Taming Your Inbox
15Wrangling All Of Your Email Accounts
04:56 16Inbox vs. Archive - Achieving Inbox Freedom
04:07 17The Machete - Cutting Down Your Overloaded Inbox
03:41 18The Scalpel - Strategically Cutting Down The Rest Of Your Inbox
06:58 19Get A Grip On Your Subscriptions
04:35 20Starting Fresh - Creating Your Own Structure
07:25 21What Happens Next - Beginner’s Inbox Organization
08:40 22Let’s Get Ninja - Advanced Inbox Organization
08:02 23Quiz - Chapter 3
Chapter 4: Everything Else: The Basics of Digital Order
24Enabling Back-Ups
10:02 25Calendar
12:24 26Choosing & Using A “To-Do” List
09:23 27Neat Notes Snippets
11:59 28Syncing and Organizing Documents
10:00 29Downloads Folder
03:49 30Conquering Your Contacts List
11:08 31Securely & Safely Storing Passwords
09:00 32Scan It, Send It
04:55 33Managing Legacy File Storage
04:46 34Quiz - Chapter 4
Chapter 5: Managing Your Media
35Saving Sites
05:16 36Cross-Device Syncing of Photos & Videos
06:45 37Keeping Your Music Organized
07:57 38Books and Reading Materials
05:18 39Quiz - Chapter 5
Chapter 6: Conclusion
40Self-Assessment & Success Moving Forward
05:47 41Congratulations & What We’ve Learned
01:42 42Bonus - How To Take Your Digital Decluttering To The Next Level
00:27Final Quiz
43Final 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.
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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.