Digital Spring Cleaning: Here is How You Can Declutter Your Digital Space

For many folks, spring clean has become a yearly ritual, but what about decluttering your digital space? 

According to experts, maintaining a clean virtual environment can be just as beneficial to your mental well-being and level of productivity. It can also improve your cybersecurity at a time when ransomware, phishing, and hacking attacks are becoming more sophisticated in their attempts to access your digital data. 

So here, we are recommending you some tips on how you can keep your digital space clean:

Have a ‘Plan’ 

According to Clare Kumar, who councils both companies and individuals get organized from Toronto, the best place to start for anyone trying to clean up their digital files is to have a strategy.
She also acknowledges that just getting started might be overwhelming at first, but having a plan can help. 

Clare advises on deleting really large files and the apparent ones that you really do not need, just to get started, moving on to the more complex files that might require some consideration before deciding on deletion. Also, she suggests flipping the deletion process around and emphasizing the items you want to save so “you don’t have to worry so much about the rest.” 

Another piece of advice comes from Tracey Silliker, an organizing expert based in Alberta. She recommends setting aside 10 minutes at first, and if you could

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