Management of information garbage in the conditions of its rapid accumulation in a limited space

It is known that the only annoying lack of a wide channel is manifested in the sudden disappearance of free disk space. Those who still have compartments buy more hard drives, but a critical day sooner or later comes for everyone: you need to clean something. Time to hastily watch / listen / install / read all accumulated is sorely lacking. Better at this time to swing something else, is not it? Dilema Matroskin confirms pretty quickly: to swing something unnecessary, you must first download back to remove something unnecessary.

However, the bad thing is that the unseen is lost in this dump and you don’t remember what you’ve already seen and what you don’t yet. You want to put all this in order, but do not want to spend time on it.

The solution is simple and somewhere even deceptively primitive, but it works. Something like GTD and does not require any investment of time and effort. Only quite a bit of consistency. And most importantly, it will not make you think a lot, and you will again be able to swing, swing, swing ...
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So, each large set of something that we just got from the Internet (or from a friend), did not have time to listen / view everything and decide whether we need it, we put all this in the folder with the magic name:

D: / Category / YYYY . MM . DD - Comments

Where we substitute:

Category - rubbish category (pictures, music, books, porn or something you have there)

YYYY - the current year (2007, 2008, etc.),

MM . DD is the month and day (two symbols are required, this is important), the date when we swung or brought all this garbage home. If the day is not important - skip the day.

Comments - comments at will. Some kind of tag or tag, all that will help you remember the day when you wrote down this garbage (or what you used and mixed with)

Everything. It remains only to adhere to the rule and sometimes (when there is free time) leisurely to rake and after watching / listening to choose only one of the two actions:

• Delete to trash; or
  Move to a permanent place (or immediately to a blank)
  
  (in the case of photos, you can not move anywhere)
  The raking system may have its own: starting with the old (FIFO), with the freshest (LIFO) or in random order. The main thing to remember is that only folders with such names contain a fresh one, to which you have not touched yet, and everything else can be banged, archived or backed up on discs.
  
  After 6 months, if you stick to the system (and this is simple), you will most likely appreciate how comfortable it is, and you will probably understand why the directory template should be just that, and not some other, and then, if you are an honest person, you will send me postcard.