The six rules to have a more organized and efficient smartphone

Highlights: The six rules to have a more organized and efficient smartphone. Download a password manager app. Delete apps you don't use. Use the Google search engine when we need to find answers to various questions or decide where to go on our next vacation. It can also be useful to clean up our social media profiles, which many of us follow without real interest. Not having a single email account is one way to know how to receive fewer, only the most useful ones. It is also a good idea to create another email account as an alternative, in case you have to spread it widely.

Among New Year's resolutions, there is always that of spending less time with your mobile phone, tablet or computer. One way to achieve this may be to keep them...

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Updated Monday, January 29, 2024-13:33

Among New Year's resolutions, there is always that of spending less time with your mobile phone, tablet or computer. One way to achieve this may be to keep them "tidier." As for the smartphone, the device we use the most, the goal is to quickly find what we want

without spending entire minutes searching for a password or a document

. Here are some tips and tricks, as explained by the

Wall Street Journal

. The key word to keep in mind is organization.

Download a password manager app

If you are one of those who use different passwords for emails and multiple accounts, this first tip is really useful. By downloading a password management application, you can have them all in one place, additionally protected by another password.

This will be the only one you will have to remember

when accessing your online profiles, also providing you with greater security.

Delete apps you don't use

When we update the smartphone operating system, sometimes we are suggested to delete applications that we have installed but that we hardly use. The advice is to take a moment to permanently delete these applications from the device, starting with those that

we have not opened in at least a month

(and which are therefore only taking up memory space). To do this, simply go to settings, find the list of downloaded apps and delete those that you consider unnecessary.

Pay more attention to email

Some people make it their New Year's goal to have 'zero' emails in their inbox. We know that it is not a simple goal, but you can try, for example, logging into your account and gradually eliminating advertising emails or those that are not interesting. Alternatively, suggests the

WSJ

, there are apps that can do much of the work for us, such as

unsubscribing from mailing lists

, filtering messages from new senders, and organizing emails into folders. An example? Clean Email, free in the trial period and after payment, approximately 12 euros per month.

Not having a single email account

We remain on the topic of emails, but this time to know

how to receive fewer

, only the most useful ones. Here's the tip: create another email account as an alternative, in case you have to spread it widely, to keep work and personal life separate. Or also for subscriptions to newsletters or newsletters that we will not consult so often.

Less time on social networks

It can also be useful to clean up our social media profiles, which many of us follow without real interest. We enter our accounts and, from the main profile page, we can see and, if necessary, delete the accounts that

we no longer like or those of people we do not know

. In this way, we will also eliminate unnecessary screen time.

Optimize searches

The last tip is to use the

Google search engine

when we need to find answers to various questions or decide where to go on our next vacation. Often, according to the

Wall Street Journal

, we waste time doing long searches through other pages, when with a single specific search using keywords, we could solve the problem immediately.