Marie Kondo on your mobile

Is your phone as messy as your underwear drawer? Do you get notifications from apps you didn't even know you had?

Spring is the perfect time to bring some order to your life and, while you're at it, to your smartphone. That's why today we're bringing you... Marie Kondo-style mobile cleaning tricks. Digital minimalism, as the good weather arrives, or how to get rid of what you don't use to make room for the new. Whatever your excuse, Follow these 5 steps from beginning to end.

1. Free up space

How many cat memes do you need? How many GIFs of falls? On your phone, storage space is like dignity after a night of drinking: once lost, it's hard to get back.

So, to avoid the point of no return, First, download a bunch of folders and prevent WhatsApp from automatically saving what groups send you to your gallery in the future. Protect your phone from bad jokes and gossipy photos… it would never do that to you. Cache, photos, and files are usually the usual suspects, and be honest with yourself…Maybe someday I'll want to see him again.… THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.

2. Only 'beret' applications (mental case)

From Fit apps that you only opened on the first day to the London Underground map that makes you feel very cosmopolitan (although we both know that you prefer to spend the winter in Zafra because you hate the rain), your mobile phone is full of apps that you don't even know what they are for.

Start deleting so your phone runs faster than your bowel movements after your morning coffee. We recommend the following exercise: If you didn't open that app last week, it gets deleted. Keep only the ones you use, at most, once a week. You'll have time and opportunity to download the coloring books and Sudoku again if you really feel like it while waiting in line at the doctor's office or the bathroom.

3. Tabs and groupings

Geeky recommendation: You should have a maximum of 3 'tabs'

A first one with the apps you use daily, without grouping them (10 or 11 is "reasonable").
A second one, with the rest of the apps, grouped into folders.
Select the topics and group them into folders: food with food (no, sex apps don't go here), sports, finance, office apps, etc. Think about it a bit so that almost everything can fit into a theme, and your fingers will thank you.
A third option, using Android, Apple, or whatever you have... they're worthless and you'll never consult them.

4. Layers and layers

We're not talking about Ramón García ringing in the New Year, but about how to avoid your partner or boss catching you watching porn, or how to show a photo to your colleagues without your penis or cold ass appearing.

If you're into using "unmentionable apps," we recommend parallel space, 2account, or dual space, which create a second "space" where you can duplicate, for example, WhatsApp, Instagram, or any other application. This way you can have your personal profile and the gulf open at the same time.
If you're more than one of those people who have eighty photos of your body, your member (we're not here to judge the names you want to use), or photos in front of the mirror with a face of fucker, search for apps of “calculator hidden in photos"(That's what they're called, just like that), discreet, and nobody in their right mind opens a calculator. You're welcome."

Anyway, many smartphones let you create private galleries, so don't be lazy and check your phone's instructions.

5. Put your damn phone down once in a while

Don't you get enough screen time with your 8 or 9 hours of work each day? How about silencing it, using vibration for something else, or putting it in airplane mode when you get home? It'll take less than a minute to achieve peace of mind and your most cherished desire: to disconnect.

Treat yourself to a moment of disconnection every day. Feet up or knees on the floor, a little sofa, some music, and if you have twenty minutes, Heroes recharging mask. Could there be a better way to end or start the day?

Ninja time

This is for the super productivity geeks... but here's a list of hacks compiled from the most reliable sites around the world: Forocoches and Reddit.

Turn off ALL notifications
Turn off app rating requests
Hide social media in the second tab
Turn on 'do not disturb' mode from 7pm to 10am the next morning
Reading mode is good for your eyes
The black wallpaper also saves battery power on your mobile phone.
Put the mobile time tracker on the first tab to see how hooked you are
Google is awesome. (Cloud, Maps, Calendar, Photos, and Mail are better than any of those Apple and Android apps… and it also takes much longer to try to charge you!)
Within the groups, order the applications alphabetically.
Use only one note-taking app (Evernote is always good)
Use only 1 meditation app (Calm or Headspace are fine)
Use the password manager for passwords
Put the camera on the first tab
Get a background sound app (Brain.fm (It's pretty cool)
Install Kindle even if you don't read it in bed
Force the first tab to display apps related to the person you'd like to be (sports, reading, meditation) rather than who you are (TikTok, porn, etc.)
Set up the health tracker; it's a worthwhile investment of time.
It's better to download intermittent fasting apps than calorie counting apps if you want to lose weight
Give your phone a name (not your own) and change its voice to one that is NOT the default.
Just 1 app for tracking achievements and routines