First order of business: email – aka headquarters of our digital lives. I was skeptical going into this project. I thought the “inbox zero” and “Getting Things Done” fanatics were a bit extreme. Their processes, while efficient, seemed like an unrealistic waste of energy. I questioned the impact this experiment would have on my own stress…
It’s time to get those photos and videos under control. If you have thousands of photos and videos lying around, this project will probably be intimidating, but fear not, there are some easy solutions to get you started. Let’s dig in. THE SEARCH I spent this past week testing out different cloud storage platforms. I…
My parents are awesome. My mom made me beautiful handmade scrapbooks of my childhood. My dad condensed 30 years worth of videos into a DVD set for each of my siblings and I. I treasure these gifts and revisit them often. Sadly, I am not a scrapbooker. I snap dozens of photos and videos each…
This is my husband’s iPhone. My husband. As in the person who I discuss all of my digital solutions with in great detail and who edits every single one of my posts. This man has 34,000+ unread emails, 119 unread text messages and 86 un-listened to voicemails. How could he – of all people – not even try to…
I’m Rosanna and I am a Facebook addict. I check it about 74 times per day and sometimes I just wish I knew how to quit it altogether. I’ve spent the last few days learning how to hack, tweak and manage my newsfeed so I get more of the things I actually care about, and less of the things I…
I’m going to talk a lot about me in this post because I am frustrated and feeling sorry for myself. It’s about food. Again. And I promise, there is a digital tie-in. I thought I was past the hard part, given that I had spent an entire month of May on a very restricted diet. I thought…
We’re busy people with lots of things on our plate. You can have all of your photos, videos and emails organized in nice little folders, but if you don’t have a system for managing your day, your week and your month, then you’re not much better off. This is about being in control of our…
This month was great. I did not expect to enjoy the many hours I spent geeking out over technology, productivity and organizational systems as much as I did. I got so excited about this stuff that I created a few guides to help people get started on their own digital life cleanups. Less text and…
Right now, I’m sitting in a cozy chair in the Sky Lounge of the Celebrity Solstice cruise ship sailing through the Alaskan fjords. I snuck away to this spot for some quiet time to sit and admire the view. This scenery is some of the prettiest I’ve ever seen – breathtaking glaciers, towering cliffs, icebergs…
In Visitacion Valley Middle School, a bell rings twice a day. It’s a school in one of the roughest neighborhoods in San Francisco where crime, poverty and traumatic stress are part of every day life; and where seemingly like magic, the rowdy students quiet down and sit in silence for 15 minutes once they hear the…
