I’m a Digital Hoarder. Why There’s Hope for Me Yet.
Jill Burke
Alaska Dispatch News
April 10, 2016
I’m Jill. I’m a digital hoarder. And I need help.
Combined, my work and personal emails top 100,000. The habit of managing an email that doesn’t relate to what I need has long escaped me. I scan my inbox for what’s relevant, deal with it, and ignore the rest. Plus, I’m always worried about deleting some email I don’t need now but which might-possibly-not-really-ever become crucial at some mysterious future point in time.
More sinister than the menacing mess of emails I’m plagued with — the real assassins to the sanity of my digital life — are passwords. I have at least two dozen to keep track of, and those are just the ones that get used routinely.
Naively, I thought if I kept these passwords organized in one list hidden on my computer, cleverly (or not so cleverly) titled “family recipes,” I’d save myself the grief of having to memorize everything and have a handy go-to list shielded from prying eyes