Clutter is a pernicious problem for many people. And, so is its cousin, digital clutter. Across your many desktop and mobile devices now prevalent in daily life, we house files piled high (metaphorically speaking) that as Art Gelwicks aptly notes, lives on "without a clearly defined purpose." Clearly this is a complicated issue and the ProductivityCast team has a healthy debate about the practicality of managing our digital worlds, and what awaits us in the future for digital information management. Join us for this fascinating discussion into digital clutter and the need to do digital decluttering.

This is surely a topic we'll revisit in the future, as the more information we have about us living both locally on our systems and in the cloud grows, almost exponentially.

Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!

If you'd like to discuss this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). What are your thoughts on your digital information and performing any kind of digital decluttering? Do you suffer from digital clutter? Or, do you have a particular area where you manage your digital information well (say, at work), but very poorly elsewhere (like, home digital photo organization)? You can comment below, or let us know via our contact form (audio or text) and we'll be glad to help as best as we can in a future episode.

In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Art Gelwicks

Show Notes

Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

Trello for Mac

Evernote

IFTTT

Amazon Kindle e-Readers

Survivorman

Instapaper

Pinterest

Minimalism (documentary)

ProdPod: Episode 68–Digital Clutter: Out of Sight Is Not Out of Mind

Otixo

MultCloud

OneNote

Google Drive

Dropbox

Getting Things Done by David Allen

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are you ready to manage your work and

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personal world better to live a

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fulfilling productive life then you've

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come to the right place

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productivity cast the weekly show about

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all things productivity here are your

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hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto

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Pinaud Francis Wade and art Gelwicks

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welcome back everybody to another

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episode of productivity casts this is

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episode 21 and so we are in full steam

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ahead and how are you guys doing how are

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you guys doing today doing well this

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morning's good weekend busy weekend

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productive well that was productive as

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I'd like but a good weekend everybody's

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doing well I think good I was on travel

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this weekend and because of work I had

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to be in New York and so I'm still

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adjusting to the hecticness of the

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weekend being somewhat personal you know

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social stuff and then trying to get all

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the work stuff in so for those listeners

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who have to deal with that know that

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you're not alone there there is that

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balancing act that you have to have so

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in the news this this past week and by

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the time this is out and recording it

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it'll have been about a month Trello has

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come out with a desktop application for

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the Mac and so it's had mobile

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applications for quite some time now on

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iOS and Android and has been a primarily

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web-based application and for those

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listeners who don't know Trello is owned

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by Atlassian and which also owns HipChat

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and several other products but they were

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purchased us maybe last year early this

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year by them and so I was curious your

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reactions gentlemen regarding web

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applications that are choosing to create

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desktop applications and in reality you

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know the desktop application is probably

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just a shell the web app with some some

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fancier tie-ins to some of the desktop

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components but it just gives you a an

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icon in the taskbar and how that affects

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people's productivity when they might

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have many boards open in their browser

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versus having a desktop application

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where the tabs the boards are open

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inside of a desktop application I think

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is a matter to expand

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your target market more than anything

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the reality is that it will not make a

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significant difference having the web

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browser first having the local

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application but for certain people of a

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certain age it feels like it's real

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first asad of what I'm saying sound for

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certain people the web and online and

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all that as we understand it for for the

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techie point it's not mainstream and it

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doesn't give them the idea of a solid

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application even when you go to

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corporate Trello is making their way you

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know especially into development and the

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agile work and all that and for some

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corporations they need to have the feel

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that they can control where the stop and

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where the stuff goes so giving them or

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giving them access to on an actual

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application may give them a push into a

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corporate world where is that there is

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an impression that just online is not

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secure enough I don't think it's gonna

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add a whole lot to the individual user

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experience I don't think they the person

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sitting is at his computer trying to be

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more productive is going to experience

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any mega boost in productivity as a

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result I think I agree I think it's four

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with what gusto said I think it's four

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not marketing but reasons of

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implementation I think that's the

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primary I imagine that's the primary

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driver as opposed to really changing the

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user as experience yeah I don't I don't

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know that I totally agree with its being

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on the marketing side of the equation

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with it lasya n-- having purchased

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Trello and their presence within the the

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enterprise environment having an

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application at the desktop level gives

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them a much more compelling footprint to

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get Trello into environments where being

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a web only solution isn't all that

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endearing to the companies because that

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does happen a lot of larger legacy

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companies the other aspect though is

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just purely from the user side because

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it's on the desktop level they're able

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to in

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more functionalities such as lots more

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desktop shortcuts or keyboard shortcuts

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rather which keeping in mind that tools

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like Trello do have a habit of being

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used by more technical people they tend

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to gravitate towards more keyboard

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shortcuts therefore their catering to

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this particular audience I don't I have

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to agree though I don't think you're

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gonna see a major upswing in Trello

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adoption just because they have a

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desktop it's more of a price to play in

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the space but it's still a nice feature

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for them to add in the the interesting

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thing that I found about the change was

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the desktop application from the very

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cursory review of it that I've done so

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far I've installed it and started

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