How to Declutter Your Media Work Space

Like an Apple, a day keeps the doctor away, a decluttered media workspace gets the creative juices flowing. But, unfortunately, at the dawn of the coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns, offices and prominent organizations worldwide were left with only the work from home (WFH) option.

Hence with the work from home option came the workspace necessity. However, before the wide acceptance of work from home, most freelancers enjoyed the serenity that came with having a workspace just a few meters away from the bedrooms and kitchens. 

But now, the lockdowns have been eased and a lot of companies are yet to return back to a physical office. People have invested millions in creating suitable workspaces to keep the work from home culture going. However, some days can be hard and there is only but one thing that saves the day; decluttering! 

Decluttering is the simple act of freeing up space. In layman's terms, it simply means cleaning.  Hence Decluttering your media workspace simply means to rid of your devices in your workspace of things that aren’t really necessary or in use to allow seamless workflow.   So, if you are a freelancer or a work-from-home disciple looking to declutter your media workspace. I implore you to read this article till the end.

Hence, we would be breaking down the process of decluttering your media workspace in five easy peasy steps below;

1. Rearrange/Clear up Your Desktop Area

Originally, once your work office station is neat and set for work. You might face a little setback if your desktop is cluttered because it is the first user interface that often predetermines the user experience. So you want to start decluttering your media workspace by first sorting out your desktop. You can easily do this by grouping like terms into a folder. 

You can also sort out already existing folders to enable you to reduce the number of folders on the desktop. Ultimately, you can take the less frequented folders away from the desktop environment thereby leaving only the paramount ones which you visit often. That way, you have succeeded in sorting out your files by importance and decluttering your desktop area.

2. Rename Your Folders Accordingly

While it is important to create folders and stuff similar documents together, it is also important to name them accordingly.  This way, it helps to make the folders more organized and easily accessible. You can name them via the name of the project or client. Or, any other methods of your choice.

This way, the clutter becomes decluttered. Most importantly, it would be seamless to navigate the files and allow easy flow of work while maintaining a neat media workspace. 

3. Sort Out Your Notifications And Emails

Another important way to sort out your media workspace is tending to your notifications and sorting out your emails. Open the notification bar, and clear out all notifications that are pending. Then you move to your email. Sorting out your email can be very dicey. You want to start by deleting all unimportant messages. 

Then unsubscribing to less important newsletters and mailing lists. Clear out your cache, junk, and spam. You can also program your mail in such a way that less important emails go to spam.  For a seamless email sorting to clear out your media workspace, you can use some email organizing tools like Yahoo, Outlook, Gmail, and the like. 

4. Clear Out Your BookMarks, Cache, And Cookies

Another paramount but less talked about a way to declutter your media workspace is to clear your bookmarks and cache.  To do this, you can easily sort your bookmarks out first to enable you to identify useful ones. You can use the tagging feature or alphabetical order sorting to do the separation. Afterward, you can discard the irrelevant ones.  There are also some smart tools that you can utilize to sort out your.

This is particularly helpful if you have been experiencing some difficulties in browsing. Clearing out your bookmarks, cache and cookies will help to get rid of your old browsing history, settings, and information which would make browsing seamless afterward. 

5. Move Important Documents To The Cloud

So, after clearing out your desktop area, bookmarks, cache, and cookies, renaming your files, and sorting out your emails and notifications. If there are important documents you still need to have in your media workspace but you seldom use them. Instead of deleting them, you can store them in the clouds. You can use cloud storage systems like Dropbox, google drive, amongst others. 

 

Conclusion

In addition to these five easy steps for decluttering your workspace, the ultimate cheat code is to have a routine. It could be monthly, quarterly, bimonthly, or even annually. The ball is in your court.