Saturday, November 09, 2024

tech tidy - in which we start decluttering ideas, recipes and more saved from the internet

 continuing my bad habit of trying to do too much all at once I'm now determined to get rid of some of the hundreds, if not thousands of favorited, saved, open tabs, photos and screenshots, bookmarks, paper, frankly everything and anything to get rid of some clutter.

i have dozens of tabs open on my computer, nearly 100 on my phone, not to mention things saved or favorited on social media platforms and my bookmark list on my laptop is a kilometer long.

the one that frustrated me the most, for no reason, is tick tok, so i thought i'd start there.


i currently have 802 videos favorited.  eeeek.  so, i went down to the very bottom and chose the last video, which was recomendations from a book store.

at one time, a bunch of years ago, i had a long list of books that i wanted to read in the back of a journal.  since i abandoned that journal, i either screenshot photos of books that i want to read, add them to another list, or just shrug and hope i'll remember them.  i searched for my old journal with the list but couldn't find it, and just as i was about to start a new list on paper i thought, what about an app?

i picked the Reading List app as all i am looking for is a basic app to keep a, well, reading list.

so far i've added 81 books to it, and been able to clear out oh, about 81 screenshots out of my photos.

yay!

my next journey into my favorites began with unfavoriting about 10 videos that had been deleted, as well as removing a smash taco recipe, and the terrible marshmallow in the chocolate chip cookie video.  i also watched and screenshotted from 2 book recommendation videos and removed 3 candy recipes that i should not make. i also decided to delete some halloween crafts that i haven't made and let's be honest, won't ever make.

that has me down to 760!