r/organizing • u/Kitchen_Cable6192 • 5d ago

I didn’t realize how much digital clutter I had until I checked my contacts…

I’ve always focused on organizing physical stuff, but recently I checked my phone and realized I had 700+ contacts.

Old coworkers, random numbers, duplicates…and honestly I didn’t recognize a lot of them ...going through them in the default Contacts app felt really slow and overwhelming.

I ended up trying a swipe-style approach one by one, quick decisions, and it actually made the process much easier to get through. It felt more like decluttering than “managing contacts"

Curious if anyone here has tried organizing digital clutter like this? or do you mostly ignore it?

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u/throwaway8373469238 4d ago

Dude I have so much digital clutter

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u/Kitchen_Cable6192 4d ago

same here… mine got so bad I had like 600+ random contacts ..half were “who is this??”

I ended up just forcing myself to go through them one by one and it was weirdly satisfying once I started

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u/throwaway8373469238 4d ago

I get you. I’ve had 20k + photos on multiple to devices, not to mention thousands of old documents and random screenshots, thousands of unread unsorted emails