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Organize This, Not That

Here's a secret from the tidiest people we know: There are places in your home that shouldn't be organized. Follow our to-do-list-shortening guide to straightening up the ones that matter.
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Organize This: Your Smartphone home screen.
It's an easy and often-ignored chore you can even tackle in a doctor's waiting room—make sure your home screen has only the apps you use daily, with any pre-programmed or long-forgotten icons moved off to the second page of the screen (or better yet: delete them). This alone could save you 150 micro-hassles per day—that's the number of times users check their phones.

Not That: Your email.
In 2011, IBM researchers studied 85,000 instances of looking for old emails, and discovered that the search function is a much more efficient tool than meticulously categorized folders. Consider that official permission to forgive yourself for ignoring the "online shopping receipts" folder you created last year.
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Published 03/03/2015
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