Annual Digital Cleanup
Tip of the Month - January 2024
Start the new year feeling fresh by cleaning up your work computer, your mobile phone, and your email.
Heavily inspired by Vitaly Friedman’s Digital Clean-Up Checklist 2024.
💻 Work Computer
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Properly file documents that are saved on your desktop in your home drive or department folders.
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Delete any desktop shortcuts you don’t really use or need.
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Review old documents in your home drive. Delete what you don’t need.
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Empty your Recycle Bin.
📱 Mobile Phone
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Turn off notifications that you don’t need.
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Uninstall apps that you haven’t been using.
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Install any updates you have been delaying.
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Review the permissions your apps have been granted. Revoke what is not necessary.
✉️ Email
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Reserve “you time” in your calendar. Use it to get work done uninterrupted, or for personal things.
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Delete email newsletters that you haven’t read. Unsubscribe from email newsletters you don’t need.
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Use email rules to help with labeling and filing emails when they arrive.
🛡️ Privacy and Security
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Check if any of your account information has been compromised. Change passwords for accounts that have been affected.
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Change passwords for accounts that haven’t been changed in the past year.
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Turn on two-factor authentication (2FA) or multi-factor authentication (MFA) wherever possible.
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Remove old shared files from OneDrive, Dropbox, etc.