perhaps one of the biggest areas of clutter frustration and fear for folks lies in their photos and videos. After all our photos and videos contain our most cherished memories of moments will never experience again and people who are no longer with us. This among other reasons is why it's so important to get this part right. When we tell you how to do it, you're probably not going to be very surprised. Yes. Though we might be sounding like a broken record at this point. These same fundamentals here are true. Your photos and videos should have one home and for peace of mind that home should be in the cloud. We know that this is a stark contrast to the way most people handle their photos today. They have some of their photos on their old phone, someone, their new one, some on their ipad, still others on their old pc and a random folder and some others on their Mac or hard drives. They have a bunch of photos scattered on a few memory sticks somewhere. And then of course there are the fami...

ly photo albums from decades ago. What a mess fortunately today organizing and even sorting your photos is easier than ever. First, let's find them a home when it comes to cloud photo storage solutions. There are really only two names in town ICloud and google photos depending on which devices you use. Again, you may prefer to use one or the other iphone and Mac users will be much better off using ICloud because it will sink in real time. The photos they take on their phones, to the photos app on their computer and can also be accessible via any web browser. Basically you'll be able to view and access all of your photos anywhere you go now. Pc and android users should stick to google photos though of course google photos also works great with Mac iphone and everything else. Plus, unlike ICloud, which will probably require a paid storage upgrade. Google photos is free if you want to only store optimized versions of your photos, whichever solution you choose. The next step is you guessed it to upload all of your photos and videos there. And when I say all, I mean all of them connect your old cameras, memory cards, computers, ipod touches, hard drives and phones and migrate all of your photos and videos to the cloud storage platform of your choice. Then if you're feeling really ambitious, do what I did and buy or rent a high speed photo scanner and scan all of your family photo albums dating back to the 1920s, dig up all of those old mini cassette tapes and digitize those two. There are affordable devices out there. If you want to do it yourself or you can pay a service to actually come over to your house and do it for you now. It might sound like a lot of work but I have to say it is worth it for photos and memories like this or how about recently when I wanted to create a memorial corner at my wedding for my relatives who had passed away instead of needing to Fedex the original photos around the world. I just printed off my own copies and they were right there with me for the big day. Really powerful stuff and that's just the pictures. You know. Recently I was moved nearly to tears, watching a video of my dad and I playing together a video that if it had not been digitized and at my fingertips on my computer, I probably never would have seen it again. Okay, but wait a minute. What about organization? I mean after you upload all of those thousands and thousands of photos, you're going to have a huge mess and never be able to find anything right wrong. First off when you scan or import photos, you can choose to preserve or right in to the files and their metadata, the dates and even locations of the pictures. When you look in my eye photo at the photos of me as a child, they actually show as having been taken in 1987. All I had to do was separate them by year. When scanning and input the proper date. What's more, most people don't realize it. But both ICloud and google photos. Use artificial intelligence to scan the contents of your entire photo library. Making it super easy to find photos without folders or captions looking for a photo of you at the beach. Just search for beach looking for a particular person tagged them once and the algorithm will find all of their pictures with their face in it automatically. It even recognizes scenery cars, trucks, pets and much much more. So just like we learned with the email and documents in this case, searching is once again faster than creating a bunch of elaborate documents or labels. And what about quickly cleaning up duplicates or poor quality shots? Well now that all of your photos will be in one place, you'll probably have quite a few duplicate images. There are a few startup players who are trying to take this kind of photo collection cleanup on Gemini photos is one of them and they scan your photo library for duplicates and poor quality shots helping you do some quick cleanup. Now there is just one exception here. One time that we're going to allow you to break the one home for all your photos and videos rule and that is when it comes to very large videos. If you're like me for example and you like to film entire family events in beautiful four K quality chances are it is going to be way too expensive and inefficient to store all of that in google photos or I club, you could of course compress the files and upload them, which I do for many short events. But what if you want to keep high quality originals or really long videos. In this case, the only solution is to invest in an external hard drive which will have to live in a drawer somewhere. Keep in mind that hard drives can fail after a few years though. So for total peace of mind, you can also back up that hard drive with a cloud backup service like back blaze or even google drive. Now. Back blaze has no restriction on backup size. So it's an excellent solution for cloud backup of huge hard drives. But I actually use google drive to store a lot of my big video files as well. Of course for most people who don't shoot videos longer than 10 minutes and don't have professional photo or video equipment, you will be able to keep absolutely everything in one home on the cloud and with ICloud plans into the hundreds of gigabytes costing only a few dollars and google photos being basically completely free. Why wouldn't you moving all of your photos and videos to the cloud is a great idea for so many reasons. It protects your family memories permanently reduces the amount of paper and digital clutter lying around and it gives you the opportunity to go through and enjoy these memories whenever you wish. So don't put this off, do it now and thank us later

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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.

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Course Structure How To Succeed

What is Digital Overwhelm

Why Does It Actually Matter

The Alternative - Digital Peace of Mind

Quiz - Chapter 1

The Importance of Robust Systems

The Power of “The Cloud”

Leveraging Automation To Reduce Friction

Reestablishing A Healthy Relationship With Your Technology

Digital Minimalism - The #1 Strategy To Achieve Order

What Intuitive Organizational Type Are You

What To Do When “Life Happens”

Quiz - Chapter 2

Wrangling All Of Your Email Accounts

Inbox vs. Archive - Achieving Inbox Freedom

The Machete - Cutting Down Your Overloaded Inbox

The Scalpel - Strategically Cutting Down The Rest Of Your Inbox

Get A Grip On Your Subscriptions

Starting Fresh - Creating Your Own Structure

What Happens Next - Beginner’s Inbox Organization

Let’s Get Ninja - Advanced Inbox Organization

Quiz - Chapter 3

Enabling Back-Ups

Calendar

Choosing & Using A “To-Do” List

Neat Notes Snippets

Syncing and Organizing Documents

Downloads Folder

Conquering Your Contacts List

Securely & Safely Storing Passwords

Scan It, Send It

Managing Legacy File Storage

Quiz - Chapter 4

Saving Sites