Some years ago I posted about the difference between Archiving and Saving. In the world of archiving and records management the terms are distinct. Archiving is designating items or content for long-term preservation. Typically, defined criteria helps with the selection.…
Category: Deletion
Honoring Your Criteria
While cleaning out my filing cabinet I had taken the time to make things easy for my future self. The trick now was to honor and trust my decisions.
The Myth of Digital Storage
I finally ran out of space in my laptop. I purchased this particular laptop in 2017. To be fair, I’ve been accumulating, and purging things, for almost 20 years. So even though I’ve had this laptop for about 6 years,…
Purging in the Time of Pandemic: Electronic Stuff
Last week I posted about two key areas in your home, the kitchen and bathroom, where you can purge (or use up) stuff while maintaining social distance. The stuff in these two rooms can often be handled without the need…
Saving Too Much
Saving everything (aka too much), goes against a default humans have contended with forever. Humans could never save everything for a host of reasons, such as time to process everything and the space to store it all. This mainly applies…