Minimalizing the Digital Clutter

1. Shredder

2. Scanner

3. External Hard disks

4. Fireproof and water proof Sentry

5. Manila Folders

First trash all your CDs

Buy 2 hard disks - one acting as slave and other as master. Build in redundancy right there to protect your digital assets.

Move all the contents of the CD into the external hard disk.

Mark it on the CD that you have transferred the contents to the hard disk

Audio CDs

You can rip them into mp3 format. Now you just created a new problem for yourself. How to organize them in a way that your mp3 player recognizes them. You need to edit the mp3 tags so that they are recognized by your mp3 player. This can be achieved by one of the commercially available softwares like media monkey

Pictures and Photos

Organize them as dates followed by the place name. Many times I visit the same place multiple times. In that case, the

Important Documents

Here comes an important decision. What do you do with the mails?

Mail flow chart to be included