How I Stay Digitally Organized | A Guide

[@CartoonDaily1]

It is really nice and refreshing that someone else does the exact same thing I do as it relates to care for ones digital space and hardware. I don’t understand why anyone would keep phones, laptops, and tablets internally and externally messy. I get we are busy, but I get refreshed and relaxed when I keep myself digitally organized. I have ADHD and Autism, so I’m very, very, very particular about where things go, what it looks, and feels like for me so I can keep my anxiety low.

[@CartoonDaily1]

@fiskburgare Right!!!? Staying organized like this helps make all the difference especially on the down days. I used to get a lot of teasing from family members who thought I was too much for that kind of organizing. But this system described in the video really works.

[@NicholasGarofola]

Feels great to be organized 😄

[@marqo724]

Nicholas you changed my life so much to the point that i dont have social medias any more, and i deleated all the apps that i dont use to stay more focused on life and be more like a minimalism like you, keep doing what you are doing cuz ur doing a great job, have a good day.

[@NicholasGarofola]

Thanks so much 🙌🏻

[@pabloafuso7319]

I'm braziliam and i am found this channel when i was shearching for minimalist lifes. Now I love this channel. 👊😃

[@NicholasGarofola]

Thanks!

[@shre9]

Great video as usual, Nicholas!! Another thing I discovered was to put 'clean digital stuff' on the calendar on repeat ((I usually do weekly). It helps me remember and also motivates me to clean up my devices regularly.

[@puneet9628]

Thanks brother, I can relate all your videos to me. Have learnt a lot and still keep learning from you😃🥳

[@NicholasGarofola]

Glad to hear that!

[@rossrobson91]

Enjoyed this, these kinds of videos always motivate me to stay in line and keep things simple and clutter free.

[@JPinto-sx8yx]

Such a great content! Thank you for all your videos.

[@HiiipowerDanni]

Great video. I admire how clean your videos look.

[@NicholasGarofola]

Thanks as always 🙌🏻

[@aaronmy]

I use the same Sandisk

[@ultracro]

Just thinking about when will you post new video😆👍 Came in the perfect time! Keep it up and only up!

[@NicholasGarofola]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@ultracro]

@@NicholasGarofola Of course I did!

[@Astra_Eos]

Love the wallpaper! Anyone have a link for it?

[@NicholasGarofola]

wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=791016

[@techystylo]

Hi Nicholas, I'd been meaning to tell you how genuinely habit-changing your videos have been for me! I was looking into minimalism and the Danish concept of hygge, and thought I'd never be able to accomplish something so daunting... especially given my affinity for stuff, stuff, and more stuff. But, your videos seemed so genuine and with such practical advice, that I've effectively cleaned out my closet and most of the things I don't need. I still live with my family, but I finally have a room in the house that is wholly under control; a peaceful place I can get work done and sleep well. Thank you so much for your room tour! I even have an ipad mini now... that I use everyday. You've inspired me. Keep up the amazing work! On to the finance tips now.

[@NicholasGarofola]

Thanks so much! Exactly, I think having your own space to keep how you like is sometimes enough. I’ve had to do the same for a while actually. CKSpace is a great channel you should also check out if you haven’t, I believe he lives with family and a some of his video are about sharing spaces with people who aren’t minimalist. If you’re interested!

[@SM-yy2vg]

Bautista bomb😁. I spent my day uploading 1200 photos off of 3 USB’s to iCloud. Once I’m not blind anymore, I’ll go in an organize them.

[@vivuvlogs2809]

I accidentally found nich while scrolling through KZbin...And this guy is life changing. Thank you Nicholas for this wonderful channel of yours. You helped improve my overall life.

[@NicholasGarofola]

Thanks so much!

[@devinmcd412]

Love all your videos! Need that space wallpaper😍

[@NicholasGarofola]

wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=791016

[@manoharppm]

Very useful stuff. Well made video. Thanks

[@NicholasGarofola]

Thanks!

[@ThatMarkGilroy]

Can I ask: is minimalism something that applies to reducing cognitive load as well as digital & physical stuff? I was interested to hear your methods for backup/passwords differ substantially from my own as I use a cloud based ‘set and forget’ backup system, and a dedicated password manager app that lives across all my devices. Have you considered either as a means to do away with the need to remember to backup and keep a copy of those passwords?

[@NicholasGarofola]

Never really cared to use cloud storage, and I probably wouldn’t trust a password app (my superstition speaking). But I just do it this way because it’s how it’s worked for me this long so far 😄

[@ThatMarkGilroy]

@@NicholasGarofola Aha, that makes sense. It’s about choosing the system you trust most. You see, I wouldn’t trust myself to remember to backup and/or where I’d put that paper file. 😂 So I delegated that remembering to cloud storage and a password manager. Great video by the way 🙌🏻

[@user-qe5xk4cv8q]

@@NicholasGarofola You could use a locally stored password manager like keepassxc, which is basically just a nice ui for a password protected file with your passwords

[@nickn27]

@@NicholasGarofola Keepassxc encrypts the database which stores your passwords making it more secure than storing it (in what i assume your'e doing) a plaintext file. It also doesnt access the Internet for anything other than the optional icon downloads.

[@reereadstoomuch]

Great as always!

[@NicholasGarofola]

And thanks as always 😊

[@igorchichkin509]

WoW 🎉❤❤❤😊awesome thank u so much 😊

[@RobertCreating]

Nice video dude! Thanks for sharing ✌

[@NicholasGarofola]

Thanks Bud!

[@maaz2505]

Video's like this are so statisfying to watch 🤌

[@AFluidRealiTea]

For things like deleting contacts you don't need (as you mentioned), filing, photo sorting, deleting old texts, digital maintenance things, etc., I simply set a Google reminder (any reminder with repeating reminders would work) set to repeat at intervals. It shows up on my calendar and voila. Done, clear, updated. (I also add reminders for things like cleaning earbuds and keyboards. Yeeeeeesh, ew.)

[@arijitsen7980]

Thanks, Nicholas for the informative video. Regards Arijit

[@pkcarreno]

I felt very identified in this video, it's almost a recreation of how I digitally organize my devices. Very good 👍

[@codingbeard1]

Thank you once again the perfect video at the right time, after I get started witch decluttering my real life, i now slowly going over to the digital stuff, searching the mails with the keyword unsubscribe was a massive game change for me i could get rid of all the old newsletter very easily, without deleting my old e-mail account. How ist the write/read speed of the SanDisk SSD is it enough for editing ? thanks a lot mate and Keep up the good work 👍❤

[@NicholasGarofola]

Extremely fast drive and great for editing.

[@mariozimmermann1518]

Thanks a lot for that new video. Love your stuff.❤

[@NicholasGarofola]

Glad you like them!

[@puneet9628]

I've a bad habit of clicking too many pictures for just one scenario, how to avoid this..as my mobile always filled up with pictures of the same object/person and in reality only 1-2 are useful😭

[@reilarus]

just delete the ones u don't like/need

[@games4us132]

It could be part of your anxiety. Consult your doctor

[@silentlilacspoetry]

I just go through my photos every so often and delete a lot of them :)

[@hintofglosss]

king of digital & physical minimalism 👑🙌 I would love to know more about how you organize and manage your video editing & youtube workflow. like how do you name files and store thumbnails, decide what b-roll to keep, etc?

[@NicholasGarofola]

Thanks so much! Oh man, that could be an entire video itself, and I’ll add that to my videos ideas list so thanks 😁

[@anitas_tinkershop]

Loved the video ❤

[@juliem.3936]

Great ideas! I see your desk is collecting more items! 😂🤣

[@MrDsouza007]

Nice!

[@jorgee24]

great video thanks

[@lthecatt9667]

When it comes to backing up files, I'm a big fan of the principle of 2 is 1, 1 is none. I have an external HDD, a USB, and I use MEGA for cloud storage (this last one is only for files that don't contain confidential information, nor any semi-sensitive private information, with exception of my name)

[@cornbuff]

Always look forward to your videos and what damage I can do to the subscribe button! Thank you!

[@NicholasGarofola]

I’ll keep them coming 😄

[@SteelKnightPlays]

Damn.. I should’ve sold you the 512 😏 lol Awesome video as always dude I’m definitely going to apply some of these methods since my computers starting to fill up haha

[@NicholasGarofola]

I'm a huge fan of yours

[@SteelKnightPlays]

@@NicholasGarofola 🥺🥺🥺 TY

[@TomsWildLife]

Great content as always! An interesting video (and one we'd personally love to see) is maybe your process for creating/editing/organizing each video project? We've been trying to streamline and keep our creative process as simple as possible.

[@NicholasGarofola]

Noted!

[@patrickf969]

Make sure you backup your ext ssd!

[@tanmaygarg6309]

Amazing video what's the link of iPad wallpaper

[@NicholasGarofola]

wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=791016

[@caratcake7704]

I'm definitely guilty of duplicate pictures of my bunnies.... Just went through a good amount and I'm going right back to it after this comment. I also need to put my documents into organized folders instead of organizing them on my desktop.....

[@STYLEislOVE]

I am guilty of this. I don’t have a rabbit of my own, but when I used to be active on social media, I would screenshot photos of peoples’ cute bunnies on Instagram🙈

[@jensumland]

Might share the link to that wallpaper?

[@NicholasGarofola]

wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=791016

[@jensumland]

@@NicholasGarofola Thank you 🙂

[@AREKU]

I would highly recommend you to get another hard drive and have it mirror the first one. "One copy is none, two copies is one to few" 🙂

[@Chrsflks]

Your minimalist phone Home Screen and laptop screen really reminds me of the methods in “Make Time” if you haven’t read it you should check it out 😊 it looks so satisfying but I don’t know if I could bring myself to do it I’m pretty set on my app layout now

[@harryssweets8010]

Subscribed, love it 🫶🌼

[@NicholasGarofola]

Thanks!

[@jorgprod]

I loved the wallpaper, where did you get it? Good content btw

[@NicholasGarofola]

wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=791016

[@aungkhantkyaw1455]

Do what’s on my MacBook minimalist edition

[@savannah5670]

Keep it up ❤️

[@jblizzard962]

You can use an cloud system we're you pay 1 time and not have a subscription. Would that get you to use the cloud. Because when your house burns down you lost all your files. Pcloud is an example of paying 1 time, and not have a subscription.

[@lizb4156]

I clean all my phones several times a day with microfibre cloths, they say most phones have faecal matter on them! I don't like grease or fingerprints or anyone's faecal matter on my phones! I don't like seeing fingerprints on touchscreens in MacDonalds or on self service tills either.

[@murdock_theory]

What carrying case is that for the hard drive?

[@NicholasGarofola]

Orbitkey Nest

[@Matthew8473]

This material kindles deep intellectual curiosity. A book I read with related ideas deepened my understanding. "A Life Unplugged: Reclaiming Reality in a Digital Age" by Theodore Blaze

[@pauljakeman]

Well first I gotta ask. Has your little mannequin man got a name? Love having a clear Home Screen and desktop screen, makes things more productive in a way. I always feel better getting rid of cluttered files that I don’t need. Same with unsubscribing from emails. I’ve done the same with not unsubscribing for years! I was subscribed to a place called Bella Italia for ages before I unsubscribed about a month ago. About 4 years since I last went to the place. I need to get on deleting duplicates too. I have a few mp3s off of albums a couple of times on my iTunes. Yes I still use them, bad habit and I’m old 😂 Great video again my dude 🎉

[@NicholasGarofola]

Thanks Paul, and no he doesn’t have a name yet. Maybe Paul is is fitting name?

[@pauljakeman]

@@NicholasGarofola go for it! Haha 👍🏻

[@AlessandroArangino]

Hey @nicholas! What browser do you use?

[@NicholasGarofola]

Safari, and PC I’d use Firefox

[@AlessandroArangino]

@@NicholasGarofola thanks a lot mate! It would be interesting a video about your apps and softwares!

How do you manage to edit off the external SSD? I’ve tried that in the past but somehow always FCPX makes a library on my laptop and I end up with the internal SSD full, even when having all the files on the external drive

[@NicholasGarofola]

When you create a new library on fcp, you’ll have the option of where to create the new library, choose your ssd 😄

[@jessicacollins8049]

Im struggling with digital clutter and too much tech. Wires drive me NUTS. I feel like ive tried everything. Nothing works

[@scavenger1362]

I hate junk and newsletters on my email address. If it’s not a site that I use often, I try to avoid making an account especially if it is a one time buy. I keep physical copies of important documents, and digital copies of stuff that won’t bother me if I lost them.

[@koldbutwarm]

We need that iPhone wallpaper respectfully

[@NicholasGarofola]

Working on making a Google Drive link for it!

[@koldbutwarm]

@@NicholasGarofola awesome looking forward to it!

[@koldbutwarm]

@@NicholasGarofola any update on this? Would like to download, nonetheless have a great week!

[@electragex]

as an average iPhone user i have 109 photos, which I never clicked myself, the phone is 2 year old and never erased the memory.💀💀💀💀

[@harshvora9]

Plz share your iPhone wallpaper

[@NicholasGarofola]

wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=791016

[@harshvora9]

@@NicholasGarofola your mobile minimalist wallpaper I was talking about

[@FahrezaDhika_dhika]

hey where is your PC? are you getting rid of it?

[@NicholasGarofola]

I did in fact sell it a few months ago 😅

[@gabewally]

My friends think I’m insane for having like 20 apps lol.

[@alexmacniven6758]

Hide My Email is a great way to keep your inbox clean and your email address private

[@guntz-nga]

I have 40k photos on my iPhone 😂

[@deadpoet566]

He still hasn’t made a haircut video 🥲

[@NicholasGarofola]

Eventually 😅

[@thisisayushpandey]

6:55 iOS 16 says otherwise.

[@ittwsasvi]

Everybody knows that your passwords are on an invisible folder on your ssd like you said on the other video.

[@ModernMoneyHabits]

Great now my day is gone as I spend the next few hours cleaning my phone and laptop. Thanks, buddy!