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I just delete stuff regularly. If you don’t own it you don’t have to organise it.
by qz2 6y ago
I just delete stuff regularly. If you don’t own it you don’t have to organise it.
- 29athrowaway 6y agoThis one sparks joy.
- KMnO4 6y agoMy addition to this: I add “Destroy after {reasonable future date}” to documents that I need to “keep”. I know, for example, that I need to keep my medical receipts for 12 months, but will never reference them after that. When I go through old documents, I don’t even skim through the contents. I just check the date and remove them if necessary.
- marttt 6y ago... “Destroy after {reasonable future date}” ... A whole book on this is "Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age" by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (2011). A longer piece with the author in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/jun/30/remember-delete-forget-digital-age https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/jun/30/remember-... And the book: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7t09g https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7t09g