Books and Reading Materials
Lesson 38 from: Digital Declutter: Organizing Your Digital LifeJonathan Levi & Maya Yizhaky
Books and Reading Materials
Lesson 38 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
Books and Reading Materials
Jonathan and I are both bibliofind oils and lifelong readers. We love reading and we love books in this lecture. We'll talk about how we can mindfully leverage the benefits of digitalization when it comes to how and what we read. Let's begin with how we read regardless of whether you prefer to read paper books or from an e reader. Parts of our reading experience have now become digitized digital versions of books. Academic research and the news are now accessible and completely commonplace. It's common for professors to assign online PDFs as reading and most of us get our news through our phones for that reason E readers are an amazing way to enjoy the electronic versions of books, especially when we're on the go or traveling a lot. E readers are handheld devices where we can read electronic versions of books. Some popular options include the Kindle, the nook and kobo though you can also use an e book app on your ipad or android device. While there's an obvious convenience factor of us...
ing your phone for reading, e readers can help us take better care of our eyesight, especially for longer reading. Plus now we readers have evolved so much that active readers don't need to compromise when it comes to highlighting note taking and marginalia. There's also a kind of modern magic and the readers as a lifelong reader, I now enjoy from having access to millions of books from one single handheld device that's incredible. Absolutely! Maya. You know, in my super learner courses I teach students about all of the powerful benefits of e readers and the ways that they can use them not only to read faster than they would on paper, but also to look up and remember new words and to easily do routine memory maintenance overall. I really believe that e readers make it easier for people to actually learn because with cloud sync notes and highlights and digest email services out there that will email you random highlights. It's so easy to search and even review your notes. It's really pretty powerful. Yeah. E readers really can offer a ton of value but that's not to say that we advocate you move all of your reading to an e reader. The digital world has brought us new reading options and it's ultimately up to you to figure out what serves you best for most people. It's some combination of paper and digital reading. I personally still enjoyed the paper reading experience, especially at bedtime when it's after my digital curfew and I mostly use an e reader when I'm traveling. If you are spending a fair chunk of time reading from a digital device, please make sure that you are choosing the right screen type for you electronic paper. E ink screens like the Kindle have a paper like finish helping to reduce eyestrain what's more, make sure that you are periodically synchronizing your books and backing them up by connecting your e reader to the internet. This way it's easy to have your books and your reading progress sync across all of your devices. Your Kindle for example can sink to Kindle Web Kindle desktop and the Kindle app on your android and IOS devices. This would make the home for your digital reads amazon's web server where you can also import other free books or PDFs. There is one thing we'd like to mention while most e readers have the ability to create folders to help you organize your reading materials. The reality is these usually aren't too user friendly. You can choose to use them if you have lots and lots of books on your devices. But as in most cases the easiest way to find your books will probably just remain search. So we don't really suggest you invest a lot of time in creating folder structures here. Either. Now you may be wondering if we're reading paper books sometimes and other times reading from an e reader or a tablet. Can we really have one home for all of our books. Well we can come close, we love the good reads app just for this purpose, Jonathan and I both use good reads as our one home for our book collection. This way we have one home for what we read with good reads. You can track all the books you've ever read our reading or want to read. This can help you be more intentional and mindful about what you're reading when the only issue with good reads is that it does not sink highlights for that. You may want to check out an app called of read wise. Read wise connects to your amazon kobo insta paper, nook apple books and all other reading apps and it downloads all of your highlights. It also allows you to select books you've read on paper and then pulls in the common highlights that other people have made in that book from there. It will give you a daily, weekly or monthly summary of all of your highlights across all of these different places, helping you review books that you've read in the past now. I love using Read wise to keep the books I've read fresh in my memory and I enjoy their key ideas time and time again. Check out the link in the pdf syllabus to get two months of read wise free. So those are, are suggestions for organizing your reading materials. While it's not as intuitive to sync all of these up, it's better than having things distributed in a dozen different ways, spend some time organizing your books and reading materials today and they'll be there and easy to find when you need them
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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.