294: Tackling Digital Declutter with Tech Expert Shawn Lemon
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Is Your Digital Life a Mess? Let’s Fix That.
If your inbox is overflowing, your desktop is a disaster, and your cloud storage feels like a black hole, you’re not alone. Digital clutter is just as overwhelming as physical clutter—and yet, so many of us ignore it because, well, it’s not piling up on our kitchen counters. But here’s the thing: the mess in your digital life is affecting your focus, productivity, and mental energy more than you realize.
This week, I’m sitting down with Sean from The Digital Organizer to help you streamline your emails, cloud storage, and files once and for all. We’re talking practical, doable strategies to help you break free from the chaos and create a digital space that works for you, not against you.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- How digital clutter impacts your productivity (and how to fix it).
- The “Email Bankruptcy” strategy to instantly clear your inbox.
- Smart file organization strategies that make everything easy to find.
- The real deal with cloud storage—and how to use it properly.
- How to stop your downloads folder from becoming a digital junk drawer.
- Simple maintenance habits to keep your digital life tidy without constant cleanup.
✨ Simplifier Spotlight: Let’s Celebrate Your Wins!
I love hearing about the small (and big!) ways you’re simplifying your life. Whether you finally tackled that overflowing inbox, organized your desktop, or set up a new system that actually works, I want to celebrate YOU!
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Get Sean’s Free Guide: Master Digital Organization
Sean is sharing his complete File Organization Guide—the exact system he uses with clients to create a stress-free digital workspace. If your files are scattered, this is the step-by-step plan you need.
Ready to Declutter Even More? Check Out These Resources:
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Quick Win Challenge:
This week, pick one area of your digital life to declutter. Maybe it’s your inbox, your downloads folder, or those 20,000 unread emails. Set a timer for 15 minutes and make some progress—you’ll be amazed at how good it feels!
Ready to Simplify Your Digital Life?
Don’t let tech overwhelm you—take back control starting today! Listen now and start creating a digital space that actually works for you.
Big hugs, my friend, and I’ll see you next week! Ready, set, simplify—bye!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Sean, welcome to the Maximized Minimalist Show. |
| 0:06.1 | Thanks for having me, Katie. I'm excited to hang out today. |
| 0:09.0 | Ooh, who can't wait. Okay, this outside of like physical clutter by far, digital clutter is a close second for so many people. |
| 0:18.4 | And I don't think that's by, you know, that's just, it's just the way it is. |
| 0:22.8 | So I'm so excited to have this conversation, have you on the show today. Before we dive into |
| 0:26.6 | the nitty gritty, I have a really fun question for you. This is kind of becoming a new tradition |
| 0:30.4 | here on the show. The question is, if you could magically declutter one thing from your life forever, |
| 0:36.4 | no effort required, what would it be? My pottery studio. |
| 0:40.8 | Your pottery studio. Yep. Is it just sitting? Do you use it? Is it sitting there empty? Or? |
| 0:46.4 | I use it. And the more cluttered it gets, the less I use it. And then we do an overhaul. And then I'm back in |
| 0:51.7 | there again. But it's, you know, I've got a two and a half |
| 0:54.6 | year old. And so my personal time is at an all time low. Actually, no, not quite an all time. |
| 1:01.8 | I'm getting some time back. So when I go in there, it's like, I just want to go and play and |
| 1:07.8 | not sit there cleaning. And so I may push it all the way to the end of my time or it's like, |
| 1:14.4 | I really need to go to bed. And so there's not, I didn't leave myself time to clean up. So that's, |
| 1:21.1 | and then next time, if I just want to get right to it, then the slow creep happens to then. |
| 1:26.7 | It's like, how did this get so messy here? I think a lot of people can relate to that, then the slow creep happens to then. It's like, how did this get so messy in here? |
| 1:29.7 | I think a lot of people can relate to that, whether, you know, it's a craft room, a pottery |
| 1:33.5 | studio or maybe sewing room. Like when we have these hobbies, we tend to accumulate a lot of things. |
| 1:38.2 | And then, you know, the clutter gets in the way of us actually doing the thing and, you know, having the passion for the hobby. |
| 1:44.9 | So I hope and, you know, you're not too far for me. Maybe one day I can come help you, like, |
| 1:48.6 | get that studio squared away so you can just enjoy it. That would be amazing. And we can see the fruits |
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