Techno-Clutter - A Byproduct of the Information Age By Laurence H
The Internet and search engines has increased the speed and expanded our ability to collect and store unlimited amounts of information. This has contributed to Techno-Clutter. Techno-Clutter is the collecting of many bits and pieces of information that is stored on computer notebooks, folders, files and never used.
Have you ever found yourself storing numerous bit of information on your computer in notebooks, folders or files for future use? These bits and pieces of information, at the time, triggers that "I can use this later" button in your brain. Have you thought of why and what you need this information for? Does it have a purpose? Is it research for a specific project or just "food for clutter"?
We all are guilty of collecting these information "bunches". This information is not used for writing articles, school papers or even that novel, you know the manuscript for that novel that we have been threatening to write for the past 20 years.
So, what should you do with this compiled clutter of information? First before we collect information, we need to decide why are we collecting it. Is it just a distraction by product from our research when we lost focus of our writing project? What are we going to use it for? When are we going to use it?
With conventional clutter, if you don't use it in a year, we throw it away or donate it to a charity. But what about information clutter? Should we keep for a year, filling notebook after notebook or folder after folder until, we have to go out and buy another computer because we do not have any memory left?
Well, we should manage our information clutter just like we do our email. Set a time to do a quick clutter review, organize it and use it to write that report, article or e-book. Should it be monthly, every 3 months or longer? I recommend at least quarterly. Another suggestion is stay focused on task when doing research and don't get distracted by the many bits, pieces and bunches of information that say" save me".
Finally, manage the information bits and pieces that our friends and family send us because it was something they found and just had to share it with us. If you have any suggestions leave a comment. P. S. Other sources of information clutter are, blogs, cell phones, voice mail, email, Spam, info-blasting, safe-list, text messaging, etc.
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Have you ever found yourself storing numerous bit of information on your computer in notebooks, folders or files for future use? These bits and pieces of information, at the time, triggers that "I can use this later" button in your brain. Have you thought of why and what you need this information for? Does it have a purpose? Is it research for a specific project or just "food for clutter"?
We all are guilty of collecting these information "bunches". This information is not used for writing articles, school papers or even that novel, you know the manuscript for that novel that we have been threatening to write for the past 20 years.
So, what should you do with this compiled clutter of information? First before we collect information, we need to decide why are we collecting it. Is it just a distraction by product from our research when we lost focus of our writing project? What are we going to use it for? When are we going to use it?
With conventional clutter, if you don't use it in a year, we throw it away or donate it to a charity. But what about information clutter? Should we keep for a year, filling notebook after notebook or folder after folder until, we have to go out and buy another computer because we do not have any memory left?
Well, we should manage our information clutter just like we do our email. Set a time to do a quick clutter review, organize it and use it to write that report, article or e-book. Should it be monthly, every 3 months or longer? I recommend at least quarterly. Another suggestion is stay focused on task when doing research and don't get distracted by the many bits, pieces and bunches of information that say" save me".
Finally, manage the information bits and pieces that our friends and family send us because it was something they found and just had to share it with us. If you have any suggestions leave a comment. P. S. Other sources of information clutter are, blogs, cell phones, voice mail, email, Spam, info-blasting, safe-list, text messaging, etc.
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