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<p> <span style="font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;line-height:110%">OPLIN 4Cast #629: The life-changing magic of tidying our digital selves</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-style:italic;font-family:arial">January 16th, 2018</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;font-size:16px;font-family:arial;line-height:110%"><img align="left" class="m_-2849060983378440265alignleft m_-2849060983378440265size-full m_-2849060983378440265wp-image-6101" src="https://4cast.oplin.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/19776293_s.jpg" alt="file in database - laptop with ring binders" width="130" height="94" style="padding-right:14px;padding-top:4px;padding-bottom:4px" title=""> I am lucky in that I have a wonderful, loving mother-in-law. While she has many wonderful qualities, organization, especially digital, is not one of them. I spent many hours this weekend managing her email. I must have unsubscribed her from the lists of hundreds of retailers, including ones I didn't even recognize. Political campaigns, local businesses, wellness newsletters, magazines and more...and the emails were nearly <em>all</em> unread. All in all, I cleared her inbox of more than 27,000 emails that were all commercially-related. There are still thousands more that are from actual people she knows, and I'm not sure I'm ready to go there, yet.<br>
<br>The idea of purging one's life of unnecessary detritus has always been around, but has taken on new life with the success of Netflix's show <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80209379" target="_blank">Tidying Up with Marie Kondo</a>. Although Kondo's book made bestseller lists in 2014, the Netflix program has caused much more of a stir, and people have started applying Kondo's method in droves. This new urge for Americans to purge, organize and tidy up their lives has even caused an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/12/entertainment/marie-kondo-konmari-tidying-up-netflix-trnd/index.html" target="_blank">upswing for thrift stores</a>. But what about digital stuff? Can we do better with that, and focus only those things that "spark joy?" Of course.</p><ul>
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</li><li style="text-align:justify;font-size:16px;font-family:arial;line-height:110%"><a href="https://www.pcmag.com/feature/352397/how-to-konmari-your-way-to-a-happier-digital-life" target="_blank">How to KonMari Your Way to a Better Digital Life</a> [Mashable] "The corollary here is to go through your computer and phone and get rid of things you've been meaning to read sometime for way too long: bookmarks, endless tabs, ebooks, and things you saved to Pocket. As Kondo says, "I'm afraid that from personal experience I can tell you right now, 'sometime' never comes.'"</li>
<li style="text-align:justify;font-size:16px;font-family:arial;line-height:110%"><a href="https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a25860798/marie-kondo-netflix-tidying-up-interview/" target="_blank">Marie Kondo, Please Tidy Up Our Digital Lives</a> [Esquire] " Some of the same questions you explore when you're physically tidying your home apply to the digital space. Is the information you have at hand truly making you happy? I think that's a very important question to ask. "</li>
<li style="text-align:justify;font-size:16px;font-family:arial;line-height:110%"><a href="https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/digital-konmari-method/" target="_blank">The KonMari Method Applied to Your Digital Life</a> [MakeUseOf.com] " <br>I think the Downloads folder is a perfect place to start. It’s much like a clothing closet: there’s a ton of stuff in there, and some of it is great, but a lot of it is easy to discard. There are probably tons of things you don’t use or need: installation files, multiple copies of the same documents, GIFs that you used once, ZIP files, and so on. "</li>
<li style="text-align:justify;font-size:16px;font-family:arial;line-height:110%"><a href="https://www.inc.com/betsy-mikel/the-life-changing-magic-of-tidying-email-marie-kondos-hacks.html" target="_blank">4 Easy Tips to Clear Inbox Clutter from a World-Famous Tidying Guru </a>[Inc] " The elusive inbox zero seems ever-more-impossible to reach. Old unanswered emails, new ones always coming in...it's seriously stressful and often an enemy to productivity. Reply All, a podcast about the internet, even created a fake holiday called Email Debt Forgiveness Day to help combat the anxiety our emails cause. "</li>
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<p style="text-align:left;font-size:20px;font-family:arial;line-height:110%"><small><strong><em>From the <a href="http://ohioweblibrary.org" target="_blank">Ohio Web Library</a>:</em></strong></small><br>
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<li><a href="http://proxy.oplin.org:2054/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cmh&AN=wapo.7f806e7a-0ad1-11e9-88e3-989a3e456820" target="_blank"> Marie Kondo's reality show: A place for everything, even gratitude</a> ( Hank Stuever. (12AD 2018). Marie Kondo’s reality show: A place for everything, even gratitude. <em>Washington Post, The</em>. )</li>
<li><a href="https://proxy.oplin.org:2460/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=6a5856c5-0c93-4cab-9fc3-0f419afbaa52%40sessionmgr120&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=133872836&db=buh" target="_blank">People Believe There Are Philosophical Similarities Between Marie Kondo and Ariana Grande</a> ( Lang, C. (2019). People Believe There Are Philosophical Similarities Between Marie Kondo and Ariana Grande. <em>Time.Com</em>, N.PAG. )</li>
<li><a href="https://proxy.oplin.org:2111/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=112553403&site=ehost-live" target="_blank">Marie Kondo the Queen of Clean</a> ( Matsumoto, N. (2016). MARIE KONDO The Queen of Clean. <em>People</em>, <em>85</em>(6), 63. )</li>
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