Thoughts on Digital Habit

Reorganising my digital life before 2017 ends

Samuel Wong
Aug 23, 2017 · 2 min read

Let’s begin, by admitting I am living in a digital mess.

Thoughts are glowing in the darkest time. I suppose…

This is the year 2017. Everyday, I am tempted by new products with sweet and cool features wrapped in fancy landing page. Struggling between one and other productivity tools, like calendar, todo app and mail client make myself to feel better, to be more productive.

Hopping on and off different platforms and apps day by day, we face the constant headache in the era of cloud storage and web app:

Fragmentation

There are no continuity of our personal data, at all.

In the days of homogenous products, scattered digital life will be one of biggest problem in time. I have already lost count of the following scenarios:

In the end of 2016, I declared a war on my 1000+ saved articles and evernote notebook. I got rid all of it and I solemnly swear to clean my saved articles every end of the month since then. Things aren’t looking great right now. To put an end or at least feeling better to the problem that I have raised, I felt my mission to log my journey before 2017 ends.

In addition to fix those problems that I encounter. I would also want to

In the remaining days of 2017, I have set myself a target to audit my digital life, to re-think each part of my digital Getting rid of all messy bookmarks, decent password system, unified bookmarks, integrated workflow for saved articles and knowledge base. More articles to come …


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Hong Kong-based UI / UX designer. Photographer and Start-up Founder.

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