April [Digital] Spring Cleaning Challenge 🧹🌷💻

[eny]

Update!

• Delete/sort files on my phone
• Uninstall unused apps on my phone
• Delete/sort files on my computer
• Clean out email accounts - inboxes are clean!
• Clean my list of notes - this was much much longer than anticipated, why did I keep so many useless notes?! but it’s finally done ^^

On last task to go! I am dreading it but it needs to be done…

[daffodil2001]

I sorted through all my OMD bookmarks and added things to my phone’s reading lists or recipes folders or whatever as appropriate.

I still haven’t transferred my photos to free up storage on my phone but there’s still time.

[IDoMe]

I’ve done a lot of one time set ups / created accounts with digital wallet type applications, things like uber and Lyft, or Amazon or other online purchases. Would it make sense for me to request new credit card numbers instead of trying to figure out all of the places I may have entered in my credit card number? Then promise to keep better track of my accounts going forward? That way if an account gets hacked the credit card number associated with it won’t be valid? I’m going to check my credit report to find all of my open credit cards. I don’t actually have that many credit cards but should ensure that any I previously closed are closed, and that there aren’t any unauthorized credit cards out there in my name.

[eny]

• Delete/sort files on my phone
• Uninstall unused apps on my phone
• Delete/sort files on my computer - done!
• Clean out email accounts
• Clean my list of notes

Yeah I am finally done!
And for now, I have managed to keep things “clean”, sorting/deleting files/emails/… as soon as I get them. I hope I can keep it that way

Thanks for the challenge, it was the push I needed ^^

[krmit]

Well, I guess April happened…

• Organize files - I have a pretty good system but there are still some ‘junk drawers’ that could use some work
• Check for breaches, update passwords/user names as needed
• Look through password manager for accounts I don’t use any more and shut them down
• Review and update my templates for work paperwork - In process!

[anomalily]

I’m not even going to acknowledge my progress on this challenge.

• Lived through April

Anyone want to organize a May challenge? I have no idea and no brain power. Will provide stickers tho.

[Gdogg]

status after each item. Overall score = pathetic. I did check the site provided and found only two accounts corrupted / exposed, one of which must have been set up by someone other than me.

@Gdogg

Goals:

• Collate and update passwords - pretty good shape
• scan any medical receipts for future HSA withdrawals - nope, still in a pile
  Not sure exactly what constitutes a valid receipt… need to investigate
• clean out email account - usual daily cleaning, but no deep clean
• set up new email for specific purpose(s) - nope

[Gdogg]

May the force be with you - physical or mental exercise challenge? Challenge yourself to meditate, or hold a plank for one minute, or exercise 20 day starts of the month, or just find 15 minutes each day for yourself…

[diapasoun]

I switched password managers at work.

I guess that was a thing at least.

@Gdogg

May the force be with you - physical or mental exercise challenge? Challenge yourself to meditate, or hold a plank for one minute, or exercise 20 day starts of the month, or just find 15 minutes each day for yourself…

I like this. Whatever your Force is, hang out with it for a month.

[Panda]

@Panda

@Panda

I’m in! My goals for now:

• Utilize a password manager and change passwords to randomized passwords
• Check to see if information has been part of a data breach
• Kill off old facebook groups, or instagram or twitter accounts
• Transfer shared passwords from an insecure google sheet into a password manager, and change them
• Get rid of old gmail/yahoo/hotmail accounts that can be used as a backdoor to break into your other accounts
• Clean out “vulnerable passwords” or reused passwords in password manager

Definitely a theme here

Aaaaaaaand done! Put in a couple long stretches in the evenings- those were painful but figured I would be more likely to finish while I had momentum. Also note that I only had to change passwords to like 100 sites, not @anomalily’s 3000+

I’m sure I’ll find passwords/stuff I missed, so I’ll address those as they come up, the sneaks

So I finished my primary goals for the challenge, plus did some bonus encryption of sensitive documents in an attempt to be responsible. Did I do this challenge at the expense of possibly more important things? Yes. Yes I did.

And I like the idea of May the force be with you for the next challenge!

[daffodil2001]

Done! I set a low bar and I cleared it

[anomalily]

Can someone make the May the Force Be With You post? You can copy the template from any other challenge or make up your own.

I’ll make the badge for this one and have smacky assign it soon!

[Cannibalsox]

I think I have a better IDEA of how to do some of the things I wanted to do in this challenge, but I really did not make much progress on any of my items. Even my pictures on my phone got back out of control.

[Gdogg]

Thread post done. Any chance of a Coda badge (Cat Yoda, with lightsaber of course…)

If you have time to give it a quick review, that would be great - if anyone sees any problem I will gladly edit / correct.

[Ms_Terror]

Hahahahahaha I did some of my things for April? I shut one old Yahoo email account and started to try to close accounts/subscriptions to random things but I have a long way to go still. Guess I’ll keep doing them gradually…

[Illathrael]

@Illathrael

Thinking about all of the tasks listed feels overwhelming right now, but here’s what I can dedicate to:

• Delete and transfer image files from my phone
• Organize/reorganize my knitting pattern files
• Ferret out all my ebook downloads and transfer them to my Kobo

I fully did one of the things!

[LadyDuck]

I have actually been checking and responding to emails this month. That is a big improvement.

I’m in the habit of saving my documents in the right folder (household or personal).

I’m sorting files right now to achieve my task for this month.

[LadyDuck]

@LadyDuck

Tasks for April:

• check with Ponder about putting antivirus on phones
• roughly sort photos in Dropbox (ie by year)
• roughly sort files in Dropbox by Ponder/ mine/ family so we can go through at our leisure later

That is quite enough.

• Will check when he’s awake
• Yep, started this and got a couple of years done! Calling this good.
• Just finished this

[Smacky]

I will award badges over the weekend. Well done guys!

[kenner]

Well, I got as far as digitization for the old stuff I wanted to keep. The shredding part turned out to be not so much shredding as making a tower of old paper and thinking I should do something about it every time I walk past it. I guess a good starting point would be finding the shredder I picked up way back when, but I can safely guarantee that isn’t going to happen in the next hour and a half.