I have two different collections. My personal and work digital cluster. Personnel cluster just builds up due to not getting rid of it after using it. No obsession. Mostly pictures and screenshots. They accumulate quickly. Every once in awhile I de-clutter.
Work is a little different, I save a lot emails thinking I may need them for later. Many different folder categories. I even had historic emails in my deleted folder. I had one time had over 20K in my deleted folder. Why? Because a lot were passenger requests or group travel records. You would be surprised how often customers come back and put blame or request information. It's nice to reply back to CYOA (cover you own @ss) or give them requested information.
During the pandemic I worked at home during part of it and was able to delete so many old emails. I'd say about 5k were obtained each year. I decided that I only needed a 1 year history. Well happy to say I don't work on passenger reservations anymore so I don't have much of a deleted folder anymore.
I will say digital cleaning feels somewhat the same as physical cleaning. I guess it feels nice to clean up and gain useable space. We can obtain a lot of data on our hand held and personal devices can't we? Lol. I'm sometimes not proud of it and do chip away at it.
Work stuff is different as you need to be careful what you delete, you never know what you're going to need, or when, but even in that case, I don't think it's justified to keep 3 or 4 years old stuff. So cleaning those old things is recommended from time to time.
Looks like you have a well established and working system already, so you're on the right track 😃
I couldn't agree more. Well said. I have an 1TB external hard drive, which is half full (or half empty? 😂), but even so, I think there's room for some cleaning, so it's coming up next.
Thanks for the comment and have a nice weekend.