At one point right after college I went berserk on my digital clutter (yup those identical photos and useless photos and mostly useless videos). 90GB (iirc) to 3.x GB (this I am sure). This was around a decade ago.
I never looked back.
Now I rarely take photos, videos are even rarer. I actually realised it doesn’t matter if I have too many of them. And even among those few captured media, I do regular cleanups. Those are so few now that cleanups take no time.
The trick is to do the clean up once and make sure you never have to do that kind of cleanup ever again. There’s no other way. Literally none.
No, I lied - there’s another way. You forget about it. Just keep clicking, keep hoarding, keep paying for storage. I mean this is fine as well on the lines of whatever floats one’s boats.
Hint: If I am looking at a great scenery, or a building, or a spectacle I look at it right then and there with just my eyes and nothing in front of it. What I mean is I do not let my phone look at it and then go back home and look at what my phone saw or not.
I know you didn’t ask for it. But you did mention philosophy ;-)
> cool tech solutions
tl;dr. There’s no hack to cure this. It’s all about discipline or preference and being okay with it, either way.
Own your digital clutter/garbage. Don’t let it own you.
I never looked back.
Now I rarely take photos, videos are even rarer. I actually realised it doesn’t matter if I have too many of them. And even among those few captured media, I do regular cleanups. Those are so few now that cleanups take no time.
The trick is to do the clean up once and make sure you never have to do that kind of cleanup ever again. There’s no other way. Literally none.
No, I lied - there’s another way. You forget about it. Just keep clicking, keep hoarding, keep paying for storage. I mean this is fine as well on the lines of whatever floats one’s boats.
Hint: If I am looking at a great scenery, or a building, or a spectacle I look at it right then and there with just my eyes and nothing in front of it. What I mean is I do not let my phone look at it and then go back home and look at what my phone saw or not.
I know you didn’t ask for it. But you did mention philosophy ;-)
> cool tech solutions
tl;dr. There’s no hack to cure this. It’s all about discipline or preference and being okay with it, either way.
Own your digital clutter/garbage. Don’t let it own you.