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Some may have heard that the place where you live is a reflection of who you are—your priorities, lifestyle, how you live, and how you think. Your house, your room is you; it’s a mirror of yourself. Personally, I realized one truth during my teenage years: to have an organized life, one must first organize their living space. Surely, one cannot handle organizing something as complicated as life if they are incapable of organizing something as simple as the physical place in which they live. Moreover, one’s physical space reflects their internal state of mind, whether chaotic or orderly.

This has very clear benefits. In such a space, every item has its place, so you never have to search for anything again—like the popular “where are my keys?” when you’re about to leave the house. The clean state of your living space doesn’t demand your attention since everything is done, and it doesn’t make you feel “lazy” because there’s nothing left to clean, contributing to your peace of mind.

When people speak of cleaning, they usually mean something physical, like the house, car, etc. However, when it comes to maintaining order, digital spaces like phones and computers are rarely mentioned. Yet, for most people, their computers and phones have also become their “home,” their “library,” the space where they store numerous digital items.

These devices often become cluttered with unimportant, forgotten files—like a digital garbage dump, far from the pristine state they were in when first turned on.

I had never tackled this digital clutter on a large scale until last month: cleaning up my devices by deleting useless files, countless duplicates, categorizing everything, and, most time-consuming of all, organizing the endless photos and videos from the past six years. I’m sorting them by year and renaming each file by date so that, when viewed, they create a chronological timeline rather than a random mosaic of scattered moments.

The process is slow, especially when trying to figure out the dates of old photos and videos, which sometimes feels like detective work—recalling events and determining their order. I’m also reviewing notes and writings, deciding whether they hold any valuable, up-to-date information or ideas.

I can already see that this effort will inevitably set a new tradition: keeping all digital spaces clean and organized. Once everything is sorted, I’ll be ready for the new PC, with the last batch of parts already ordered. I will most likely have the PC assembled by the end of this month, and this habit of digital organization will carry over, ensuring it stays clutter-free.

Personally, I believe one cannot achieve true efficiency in chaos.