Digital Cleanup Day is an opportunity to sort through your files, emails and other digital tools. This simple action will reduce your environmental footprint while improving your day-to-day organisation. But where do you start? Here are 4 concrete actions for an effective digital cleanup day.
Digital Cleanup Day is a worldwide day of raising awareness of the environmental footprint of digital technology which takes place in March every year. If you missed it, it's not too late to take part in a digital cleansing.
1/ Clean up your inbox
- Delete the heaviest e-mails by sorting them by weight or attachment
- Delete or archive unnecessary e-mails (completed projects, automatic e-mails, etc.)
- Unsubscribe from unread newsletters
- Set up automatic deletion of items from the recycle bin
[Good practice] Focus on instant messaging or the phone.
2/ Cleaning your computer
- Delete obsolete/useless files
- Tidy up your desktop and reorganise your files to make them more accessible
- Empty the bin regularly
- Make a backup on an external hard drive
- Run a disk cleanup
[Training] Responsible digital fresco
3/ Cleaning your phone
- Uninstall unused applications
- Remove blurred photos and videos, duplicates...
- Free up space: go to "Settings" then "Storage" and click on "Clean".
- Sort and delete unnecessary messages, recordings and downloaded documents
- Make a backup on an external hard drive
[Also read] Detoxing from your smartphone
4/ Clean up your social networks
- Delete photos and videos that have become unnecessary
- Proceed in chronological order to delete old publications
- Sort through groups and pages to remove which is no longer relevant
[Good practice] To establish sustainable habits, schedule a monthly or quarterly cleaning!
