How I finally tamed my photo collection

Plus: tell me your digital clutter challenges.

A quick question before we get into today’s post about photo clutter:

Is your digital clutter a source of stress? I’ve been working with a client weekly over the past month to sort through her digital clutter (photos, Dropbox and Drive folders, task management system, calendar, etc) and I’m realizing that digital clutter can benefit from systems just like physical clutter. I’d love to hear what problems people are facing in this area, and what might be well for them. Please share in the comments!

I’ve mentioned this project before, but I’ve been working over the past year to slim down my iPhoto collection on my phone (and in that enigmatic cloud) to something I can wrap my mind around.

I kept imagining myself in old age, kids out of the house, fondly looking back over the photos of my lifetime, only to find hundreds of package tracking screenshots, whiteboards from work brainstorms, and 12 versions of each baby photo of my kids, ever so slightly different. I would not enjoy that! It mig…