It is really nice and refreshing that someone else does the exact same thing I do as it relates to care for ones digital space and hardware. I don’t understand why anyone would keep phones, laptops, and tablets internally and externally messy. I get we are busy, but I get refreshed and relaxed when I keep myself digitally organized. I have ADHD and Autism, so I’m very, very, very particular about where things go, what it looks, and feels like for me so I can keep my anxiety low.

@CartoonDaily1

Жыл бұрын

@fiskburgare Right!!!? Staying organized like this helps make all the difference especially on the down days. I used to get a lot of teasing from family members who thought I was too much for that kind of organizing. But this system described in the video really works.

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Feels great to be organized 😄

Great video as usual, Nicholas!! Another thing I discovered was to put 'clean digital stuff' on the calendar on repeat ((I usually do weekly). It helps me remember and also motivates me to clean up my devices regularly.

Enjoyed this, these kinds of videos always motivate me to stay in line and keep things simple and clutter free.

Nicholas you changed my life so much to the point that i dont have social medias any more, and i deleated all the apps that i dont use to stay more focused on life and be more like a minimalism like you, keep doing what you are doing cuz ur doing a great job, have a good day.

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much 🙌🏻

I felt very identified in this video, it's almost a recreation of how I digitally organize my devices. Very good 👍

Hi Nicholas, I'd been meaning to tell you how genuinely habit-changing your videos have been for me! I was looking into minimalism and the Danish concept of hygge, and thought I'd never be able to accomplish something so daunting... especially given my affinity for stuff, stuff, and more stuff. But, your videos seemed so genuine and with such practical advice, that I've effectively cleaned out my closet and most of the things I don't need. I still live with my family, but I finally have a room in the house that is wholly under control; a peaceful place I can get work done and sleep well. Thank you so much for your room tour! I even have an ipad mini now... that I use everyday. You've inspired me. Keep up the amazing work! On to the finance tips now.

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Exactly, I think having your own space to keep how you like is sometimes enough. I’ve had to do the same for a while actually. CKSpace is a great channel you should also check out if you haven’t, I believe he lives with family and a some of his video are about sharing spaces with people who aren’t minimalist. If you’re interested!

Thanks brother, I can relate all your videos to me. Have learnt a lot and still keep learning from you😃🥳

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that!

Bautista bomb😁. I spent my day uploading 1200 photos off of 3 USB’s to iCloud. Once I’m not blind anymore, I’ll go in an organize them.

I'm braziliam and i am found this channel when i was shearching for minimalist lifes. Now I love this channel. 👊😃

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thanks a lot for that new video. Love your stuff.❤

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

Such a great content! Thank you for all your videos.

I accidentally found nich while scrolling through KZread...And this guy is life changing. Thank you Nicholas for this wonderful channel of yours. You helped improve my overall life.

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Great video. I admire how clean your videos look.

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Thanks as always 🙌🏻

Just thinking about when will you post new video😆👍 Came in the perfect time! Keep it up and only up!

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoyed it!

@ultracro

Жыл бұрын

@@NicholasGarofola Of course I did!

Thanks, Nicholas for the informative video. Regards Arijit

king of digital & physical minimalism 👑🙌 I would love to know more about how you organize and manage your video editing & youtube workflow. like how do you name files and store thumbnails, decide what b-roll to keep, etc?

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Oh man, that could be an entire video itself, and I’ll add that to my videos ideas list so thanks 😁

Love all your videos! Need that space wallpaper😍

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

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For things like deleting contacts you don't need (as you mentioned), filing, photo sorting, deleting old texts, digital maintenance things, etc., I simply set a Google reminder (any reminder with repeating reminders would work) set to repeat at intervals. It shows up on my calendar and voila. Done, clear, updated. (I also add reminders for things like cleaning earbuds and keyboards. Yeeeeeesh, ew.)

Great content as always! An interesting video (and one we'd personally love to see) is maybe your process for creating/editing/organizing each video project? We've been trying to streamline and keep our creative process as simple as possible.

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Noted!

WoW 🎉❤❤❤😊awesome thank u so much 😊

Very useful stuff. Well made video. Thanks

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

When it comes to backing up files, I'm a big fan of the principle of 2 is 1, 1 is none. I have an external HDD, a USB, and I use MEGA for cloud storage (this last one is only for files that don't contain confidential information, nor any semi-sensitive private information, with exception of my name)

Loved the video ❤

Great as always!

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

And thanks as always 😊

Video's like this are so statisfying to watch 🤌

Great ideas! I see your desk is collecting more items! 😂🤣

Your minimalist phone Home Screen and laptop screen really reminds me of the methods in “Make Time” if you haven’t read it you should check it out 😊 it looks so satisfying but I don’t know if I could bring myself to do it I’m pretty set on my app layout now

Thank you once again the perfect video at the right time, after I get started witch decluttering my real life, i now slowly going over to the digital stuff, searching the mails with the keyword unsubscribe was a massive game change for me i could get rid of all the old newsletter very easily, without deleting my old e-mail account. How ist the write/read speed of the SanDisk SSD is it enough for editing ? thanks a lot mate and Keep up the good work 👍❤

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Extremely fast drive and great for editing.

Nice!

Nice video dude! Thanks for sharing ✌

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Bud!

Love the wallpaper! Anyone have a link for it?

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

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great video thanks

I use the same Sandisk

Love everything about this video! Inspiring as ever. Do you also back up anything to the cloud? I will re-watch your file org video, maybe you talk about it there. Do you run various utilities to "clean" your devices, or just rely on manual deletions of files?

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

I’m very picky so I clean everything manually! And I don’t currently use cloud storage. Thanks Elizabeth 😄

I've a bad habit of clicking too many pictures for just one scenario, how to avoid this..as my mobile always filled up with pictures of the same object/person and in reality only 1-2 are useful😭

@reilarus

Жыл бұрын

just delete the ones u don't like/need

@games4us132

Жыл бұрын

It could be part of your anxiety. Consult your doctor

@silentlilacspoetry

Жыл бұрын

I just go through my photos every so often and delete a lot of them :)

Keep it up ❤️

Damn.. I should’ve sold you the 512 😏 lol Awesome video as always dude I’m definitely going to apply some of these methods since my computers starting to fill up haha

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

I'm a huge fan of yours

@SteelKnightPlays

Жыл бұрын

@@NicholasGarofola 🥺🥺🥺 TY

I clean all my phones several times a day with microfibre cloths, they say most phones have faecal matter on them! I don't like grease or fingerprints or anyone's faecal matter on my phones! I don't like seeing fingerprints on touchscreens in MacDonalds or on self service tills either.

I'm definitely guilty of duplicate pictures of my bunnies.... Just went through a good amount and I'm going right back to it after this comment. I also need to put my documents into organized folders instead of organizing them on my desktop.....

@STYLEislOVE

Жыл бұрын

I am guilty of this. I don’t have a rabbit of my own, but when I used to be active on social media, I would screenshot photos of peoples’ cute bunnies on Instagram🙈

Subscribed, love it 🫶🌼

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Always look forward to your videos and what damage I can do to the subscribe button! Thank you!

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

I’ll keep them coming 😄

I hate junk and newsletters on my email address. If it’s not a site that I use often, I try to avoid making an account especially if it is a one time buy. I keep physical copies of important documents, and digital copies of stuff that won’t bother me if I lost them.

I loved the wallpaper, where did you get it? Good content btw

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

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This material kindles deep intellectual curiosity. A book I read with related ideas deepened my understanding. "A Life Unplugged: Reclaiming Reality in a Digital Age" by Theodore Blaze

Can I ask: is minimalism something that applies to reducing cognitive load as well as digital & physical stuff? I was interested to hear your methods for backup/passwords differ substantially from my own as I use a cloud based ‘set and forget’ backup system, and a dedicated password manager app that lives across all my devices. Have you considered either as a means to do away with the need to remember to backup and keep a copy of those passwords?

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Never really cared to use cloud storage, and I probably wouldn’t trust a password app (my superstition speaking). But I just do it this way because it’s how it’s worked for me this long so far 😄

@ThatMarkGilroy

Жыл бұрын

@@NicholasGarofola Aha, that makes sense. It’s about choosing the system you trust most. You see, I wouldn’t trust myself to remember to backup and/or where I’d put that paper file. 😂 So I delegated that remembering to cloud storage and a password manager. Great video by the way 🙌🏻

@user-qe5xk4cv8q

Жыл бұрын

@@NicholasGarofola You could use a locally stored password manager like keepassxc, which is basically just a nice ui for a password protected file with your passwords

Make sure you backup your ext ssd!

You can use an cloud system we're you pay 1 time and not have a subscription. Would that get you to use the cloud. Because when your house burns down you lost all your files. Pcloud is an example of paying 1 time, and not have a subscription.

Do what’s on my MacBook minimalist edition

Amazing video what's the link of iPad wallpaper

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

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I would highly recommend you to get another hard drive and have it mirror the first one. "One copy is none, two copies is one to few" 🙂

How do you manage to edit off the external SSD? I’ve tried that in the past but somehow always FCPX makes a library on my laptop and I end up with the internal SSD full, even when having all the files on the external drive

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

When you create a new library on fcp, you’ll have the option of where to create the new library, choose your ssd 😄

Well first I gotta ask. Has your little mannequin man got a name? Love having a clear Home Screen and desktop screen, makes things more productive in a way. I always feel better getting rid of cluttered files that I don’t need. Same with unsubscribing from emails. I’ve done the same with not unsubscribing for years! I was subscribed to a place called Bella Italia for ages before I unsubscribed about a month ago. About 4 years since I last went to the place. I need to get on deleting duplicates too. I have a few mp3s off of albums a couple of times on my iTunes. Yes I still use them, bad habit and I’m old 😂 Great video again my dude 🎉

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Paul, and no he doesn’t have a name yet. Maybe Paul is is fitting name?

@pauljakeman

Жыл бұрын

@@NicholasGarofola go for it! Haha 👍🏻

Im struggling with digital clutter and too much tech. Wires drive me NUTS. I feel like ive tried everything. Nothing works

What carrying case is that for the hard drive?

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Orbitkey Nest

Hey @nicholas! What browser do you use?

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Safari, and PC I’d use Firefox

@AlessandroArangino

Жыл бұрын

@@NicholasGarofola thanks a lot mate! It would be interesting a video about your apps and softwares!

Might share the link to that wallpaper?

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

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@jensumland

Жыл бұрын

@@NicholasGarofola Thank you 🙂

as an average iPhone user i have 109 photos, which I never clicked myself, the phone is 2 year old and never erased the memory.💀💀💀💀

We need that iPhone wallpaper respectfully

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Working on making a Google Drive link for it!

@koldbutwarm

Жыл бұрын

@@NicholasGarofola awesome looking forward to it!

@koldbutwarm

Жыл бұрын

@@NicholasGarofola any update on this? Would like to download, nonetheless have a great week!

My friends think I’m insane for having like 20 apps lol.

hey where is your PC? are you getting rid of it?

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

I did in fact sell it a few months ago 😅

Plz share your iPhone wallpaper

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

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@harshvora9

Жыл бұрын

@@NicholasGarofola your mobile minimalist wallpaper I was talking about

I have 40k photos on my iPhone 😂

Hide My Email is a great way to keep your inbox clean and your email address private

Everybody knows that your passwords are on an invisible folder on your ssd like you said on the other video.

6:55 iOS 16 says otherwise.

He still hasn’t made a haircut video 🥲

@NicholasGarofola

Жыл бұрын

Eventually 😅

Great now my day is gone as I spend the next few hours cleaning my phone and laptop. Thanks, buddy!