I created my first email account in 1999, and it's the one I use for just about everything to this day. A couple of weeks ago I got fed up with constantly reorganising it. No number of rules or folders really solved the problem. There was just too much shit in there, and I have too much shit in my brain as it is. I deleted all of it. Saw a few flashes of emails to my childhood friends, from my first girlfriend, deceased family members. For a split second I thought "shit, no, these are my memories". But no. Not anymore they aren't. You're free.
I don't usually delete stuff on purpose, but I am not as diligent as I "should" be about backing all my data. Sure, I back up the most important things, but the rest of it I won't really miss if it gets deleted.
For example my Bookmarks/Saved Posts/Watch Later/Read It Later lists, they sometimes get deleted when I move devices and I don't bother restoring them even when I can. Most of the things I add to those lists I know I am never going to read/watch. I add them anyway just to be safe, but I don't feel bad if I don't ever get to them. There's only so much time in this world.
At least in Starfield, I do get to see them again when the game uses them as a load screen. Which makes me wonder if I can throw any old picture in the folder it saves those in and have all sorts of possible load screen images... 🤔
Quite a few good follow-on jokes in this thread, but the frequent screenshotting behavior begins to acknowledge something we can leverage into a powerful tool for learning.
All one needs to do is complete the last steps in what is the beginning of a Zettelkasten system, the first step having been collecting the information (the screenshot).
Lol, those are rookie numbers, I have around 350.000 screenshots from all the time I've been using smartphones and I still keep taking screenshots. I don't exactly plan on checking them, they're just like a calendar/journal of my digital life, but with images.🙂
I think that's a beautiful way of thinking about it. One of my favorite "on this day" posts on Facebook was a random screenshot I took of something in college. I didn't crop it so I can see my entire bookmarks bar and a lot of other stuff. It's very nostalgic seeing it. Keep on screenshotting! Future you will thank you!
Random Image+
... on Android
I'm sure there's a free app that works as well and no ads, but for a single dollar, I couldn't be bothered to go looking for that. I'm told there's equivalents on IOS