Digital Housekeeping
As we are home guarantied due to COVDI 19, we would have plenty of time in our hand to look at the topic of Digital Housekeeping. Housekeeping is a term which we are aware and we do it often at home, but what does Digital Housekeeping means lets explore!
What does Digital Housekeeping mean?
- As we are more and more moving towards cloud and saving data everywhere, we need to think about the data and remove the duplication of the same. Let me explain this in detail and give you few examples, a photo taken in your phone is saved in multiple places like local phone storage, google photos, iOS cloud, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook.
- Now one data is stored in multiple place and stored in many places and managing this or clearing is called Digital Housekeeping
How to do Digital Housekeeping?
- At this time of lockdown, you can start from WhatsApp, Google Photos, iOS Photos, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Gmail and other Cloud, Online File Storage platform
Digital Housekeeping on WhatsApp
- WhatsApp gallery where you get 100+ phones, videos everyday and deleted the unnecessary video, this would free up your phone space and you WhatsApp backup on your Good Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox will also reduce.
Digital Housekeeping on Photos
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- Google Photos (or) iOS Photos has the inbuild duplicate functionality, use to reduce the photos. Go through the photos online and delete the unwanted photo which will reduce the space and free space for new memories. Many times, there would be wrong click, accidental click, less clarity photos and incorrect focus.
Digital Housekeeping on email platform (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc)
- Email is something we don’t even we focus but it occupies a major space of the overall space. There are lot of emails which come to our junk folder, spam mails, update, subscribed email and lot more. So, check out email folder and delete the unwanted emails. This may even help you to get your emails sorted and more organised
Digital Housekeeping on Cloud Storage platform (Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc)
- Files normally get stored in multiple place and there are lot of duplicates stores in different platform, use this opportunity to checkout the files and delete the unwanted files and organise it more effectively. This will help you to archive old files and delete unwanted documents and gaining more space
Digital Housekeeping saving carbon footprint
- Overall, the data which is occupied by individual will be reduced by doing the Digital Housekeeping regularly and this also means wherever you save, there would be a place where it all would be saved locally which is in a datacentre. By following the digital housekeeping, you may help to reduce the power consumed in the datacentre which will reduce the carbon footprint.
Being Digital or Digital Way is the way forward by everyone, however sustainability will be become a big challenge is we don’t take care of the data which is getting stored in the cloud environment. We don’t want to cut down trees or destroy anything just to keep unwanted data accessible all the time.
So use this opportunity to clean up of all your data and remove unwanted files and follow the Digital Housekeeping regularly.
Stay Safe, Stay Healthy and practice Digital Housekeeping
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