How To Organize Your Digital Life
Your Computer Knows The Password. Do You?
You open a site you use all the time and, for once, the little dots don’t magically appear. The browser updated. The cache cleared. The computer that has been remembering the password for three years has apparently decided this is now your problem.
Was this the account with the capital letter? The extra number? The symbol they made you add six months ago?
Now imagine you aren’t even sitting at your own computer.
Your Digital Life Works Beautifully—Until You Have To Find The Instructions.
Email. Social media. Websites. Memberships. Voice mail. Cloud storage. Work benefits. Business accounts. Publishing. Affiliate programs. Customer lists. Insurance. The services you pay for twice a year and therefore remember absolutely nothing about.
Most of us don’t think of that as a system. We just accumulate it.
And if you run a business, a surprising amount of the operating manual may be stored in one extremely sophisticated location:
Your head.
The Game Changer
You Don’t Have To Organize The Internet. You Just Need A Map Of Your Part Of It.
The useful question isn’t “How do I clean up my entire digital life?”
It’s: What would I—or someone helping me—need to know to get into the things that matter?
Once the answer has a place to live, the invisible clutter starts becoming a usable system: what the account is, where you log in, which email belongs to it, what it does, who else may need access, and any instructions that will save somebody from detective work later.
Give The Information A Place To Live.
Start with the accounts you use most: personal email, social media, voice mail and memberships. Then capture the oddball accounts you use just infrequently enough to forget.
If you run a business, do the same thing for the machinery behind it—business email, websites, shopping-cart or payment systems, contractors, affiliate and publishing accounts, email lists, business information, insurance and the other details somebody would need if you took that long-promised vacation to Maui.
Then make the information accessible to you when you are away from your usual computer, while storing sensitive information appropriately and keeping secure backup copies.
Now The Browser Can Forget Whatever It Wants.
You still don’t have to memorize every login you’ve accumulated since the invention of the Internet.
But you know what you have. You know where the information lives. You know what each account is for. And if you are traveling, sick, evacuated, replacing a dead computer—or simply trying to remember the membership you last logged into six months ago—you have a way back in.
If someone you trust ever has to step in for you, they aren’t starting with a desk full of Post-it notes and a prayer.
Your digital life finally has an operating manual.
The Solution
How To Organize Your Digital Life
This guide and its forms give your personal and business digital information a home: social media and email accounts, voice mail, memberships and frequently used websites, plus the information that keeps a small business running—from websites and contractors to publishing, affiliate, email-list and other operating accounts.
It also helps you think through who may need the information in your absence and what instructions they would need—including your Social Media Will.
Give Your Digital Life An Address.
So the next time you need something, you can spend your time using it instead of looking for it.
GRAB THE SOLUTION