Show Notes for "10-Minute Digital Declutter"

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Pew Research Center, today, eight in ten U.S. adults (81%) say they use laptop and desktop computers at home, work, school, and everywhere in between.
Live Bold and Bloom – Barrie Davenport’s award-winning personal development site
Develop Good Habits – S.J. Scott’s habit development blog
HabitBooks.com – habit-related books by S.J.
“The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload” – book by Daniel Levitin
The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information – study conducted by Dr. Martin Hilbert and his team at the University of Southern California conducted and published in the journal Science
Time Mobility poll – says that 84% of people worldwide said they couldn’t go a single day without their mobile device
Kaiser Family Foundation study – says that young people ages 8 to 18 now spend nearly every waking moment when they are not in school using media
Internet Addiction Prevalence and Quality of (Real) Life: A Meta-Analysis of 31 Nations Across Seven World Regions – a 2014 study published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
Chinese teen chops hand off to ‘cure’ internet addiction – article on internet addiction in China; how an estimated 14 percent of China’s youth are hooked on the internet
Web Junkie – a new documentary which follows the treatment of three Chinese teenagers who so prefer the virtual world over the real one that their lives are severely compromised
Microstructure Abnormalities in Adolescents with Internet Addiction Disorder – a 2011 study we herein Chinese researchers studied 18 young people who were addicted to the internet.
[PDF] ICT use and mental health in young adults: Effects of computer and mobile phone use on stress, sleep disturbances, and symptoms of depression – studied the habits of more than 4,100 men and women, aged between 20 and 24, over the course of a year found that those who constantly use a computer or their mobile phone can develop stress, sleeping disorders and depression
Why using a computer can cause depression – article mentioning a large scale study reinforcing the link between excessive computer use and depression
Our reliance on technology and obsession with being constantly connected is clearly harming our relationships.
The Effect Of Technology On Relationships – Psychology Today article by Alex Lickman, MD
A Great List Of 400 Value Words
What are Keystone Habits? – on his blog, Steve talked about the importance of keystone habits, which create multiple positive effects throughout your life.
Media multitaskers pay mental price, Stanford study shows – researched the performance levels of multi-taskers
Leo Babauta of Zen Habits on wishful thinking clutter
What is Ego Depletion? How can it derail successful habit change? – “a person’s diminished capacity to regulate their thoughts, feelings and actions”
“Tiny Habits” – concept developed by B.J. Fogg
Apps to track your progress: Chains or Coach.me
Rescue Time – runs in the background of your computer and gives you a detailed report (broken down by time spent and overall percentages) of the sites and applications that you frequently use
Change your Facebook “friends” to “acquaintance”

Social media tools:

VerticalResponse
HootSuite
TweetDeck
SproutSocial
Flipboard – lets you feed in a list of keywords you’re interested in and then compiles content based on your interests
If This Then That (IFTTT) – a tool that can streamline your social media activities, and to some extent your online life

Email tools:

Declutter Your Inbox – book by Steve that can help you successfully tackle your email issue
Unroll.me – allows you to make a decision about every list subscription. Within a few minutes you can remove your email address from every list—all at once.
Boomarang extension – creates reminders for specific tasks

Most popular calendar tools:

Project management software

Music and podcast apps

Pandora
Spotify
iTunes match – allows you to access your entire library through the cloud.
Stitcher – a podcast streaming service

Evernote – a great notetaking app

List Making Apps

Calendar Apps

Collaboration Apps

Goal Setting Apps

Password Apps

Syncing and Cloud Based Apps

Cloud-based backup programs

Naked Security – reports that the average person uses over 150 websites that require a login and passwords

Password Managers

Programs that find and eliminate duplicate files

Some of the best anti-virus and security programs include:

Computer tuneup programs

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