近藤麻理子試圖讓我的數(shù)字生活井然有序

近藤麻理子試圖讓我的數(shù)字生活井然有序

On a recent Saturday morning, while my wife and infant slept in their peaceful, newly uncluttered rooms, I opened my laptop, clicked "select all," and looked at the frightening total.

最近一個周六的早晨，當我的妻子和嬰兒睡在他們安靜、整潔的房間里時，我打開筆記本電腦，點擊“選擇全部”，看到了可怕的總數(shù)。

I knew it would be bad. I didn't realize "bad" meant there would be 27,897 files on my computer. Almost immediately, my resolve to get my digital life in order weakened. Then I heard Marie Kondo's voice in my head -- or more accurately, in my inbox.

我知道這會很糟糕。我沒有意識到“壞”意味著我的電腦上會有27897個文件。幾乎立刻，我整頓數(shù)字生活的決心就被削弱了。然后，我聽到近藤麻理子的聲音出現(xiàn)在我的腦海里——或者更準確地說，出現(xiàn)在我的收件箱里。

"The biggest mistake with digital tidying is focusing too much on what to discard," Kondo wrote me in an e-mail earlier that week, The focus, she told me, should be on "what's valuable to you and on what you want to keep in your life."

當周早些時候，近藤在一封電子郵件中寫道，“數(shù)字整理最大的錯誤就是過于關注應該丟棄的東西”，她告訴我，重點應該放在“對你有價值的東西上，以及你想在生活中保留的東西上。”

With that soothing advice in mind, I resumed my digital tidying.

帶著這個令人寬慰的建議，我重新開始了我的數(shù)字整理工作。

Like many people looking to regain control of their lives by watching other people on television regain control of theirs, my wife and I binged Kondo's new show, "Tidying Up." In one uplifting episode after another, Kondo, a bestselling author and decluttering expert, helps untangle families from their excess belongings.

和許多希望通過觀看電視上的其他人重新控制自己的生活的人一樣，我和妻子狂熱地觀看了近藤的新節(jié)目“整理起來”。在一個又一個令人振奮的事件中，近藤，一位暢銷書作家和清理專家，幫助家庭從他們多余的財產中解脫出來。

With this deceptively simple rubric, lives are unburdened. A husband and wife bicker less. A mother watches her children take more responsibility for their stuff. A widow is able to move on with the next chapter of her life. Floors and walls and kitchen cabinets breathe free.

有了這個看似簡單的規(guī)則，生活就沒有負擔了。夫妻吵架少了。一位母親看著她的孩子為自己的東西承擔更多的責任。寡婦能夠繼續(xù)她人生的下一個篇章。地板、墻壁和廚房櫥柜都可以自由呼吸。

But only after we excavated all the clothes from our apartment, arranged them in a three-foot heap on the bed , did it really dawn on me: This clutter isn't the main source of my stress.

但直到我們從公寓里挖出所有的衣服，把它們放在床上一堆三英尺高的地方，我才真正明白：這種雜亂并不是我壓力的主要來源。

The clutter that weighs down my life most is online, not offline. It is in my pocket, and on my mind, every hour of the day.

最拖累我生活的雜物是線上的，而不是線下的。它在我的口袋里，在我的腦海里，一天中的每一個小時。

A personal email account that fluctuates between five and 500 unread emails on any given day. A work email account with 1908 unread emails， and another 17,921 unread emails in a separate folder .An iPhone with 134 videos and 5,336 photos. Enough text messages to take up 8.2 GB on my phone. A Twitter account with 22,400 tweets. And this laptop, with its tens of thousands of files, accumulated over six years.

一個人的電子郵件帳戶，在任何一天都在5到500封未讀電子郵件之間波動。一個工作電子郵件帳戶有1908封未讀電子郵件，另有17，921封未讀電子郵件位于一個單獨的文件夾中。一部擁有134個視頻和5336張照片的iPhone。足夠在我的手機上占用8.2 GB的短信。一個有22，400條推文的推特賬號。而這臺筆記本電腦，里面有成千上萬的文件，在六年的時間里積累起來。

The tally of my digital clutter is both extraordinary, and entirely commonplace. On the internet, we are all hoarders.

我的數(shù)字雜波的總數(shù)既不同尋常，又完全司空見慣。在互聯(lián)網上，我們都是囤積者。

My first tidying task -- organizing the laptop -- Kondo recommended creating two folders: one called "Important Documents," and another called "Spark Joy," for all my "temporary items."

我的第一個整理任務是整理筆記本電腦，近藤建議我創(chuàng)建兩個文件夾:一個名為“重要文件”，另一個名為“一時興起”，用于保存“暫時的文件”。

"Then delete the rest! " she said by email. Kondo personally moves what matters -- mostly her favorite photos -- to external hard drives" . Nothing stays on her laptop. "If you haven't opened that document in three years -- and reading the title doesn't spark joy -- then let it go with gratitude."

“然后刪除剩下的!”她在電子郵件中說。近藤親自移動重要的東西-主要是她最喜歡的照片-到外部硬盤驅動器。什么都不會留在她的筆記本上。“如果你已經三年沒有打開那份文件了,而且閱讀標題并不會帶來快樂-那就懷著感激的心情刪掉吧。”

Tidying your digital life may actually be harder than tidying your home. But it reduces stress in your life.

整理你的數(shù)字生活實際上可能比整理你的家更難。但它為你的生活減輕了壓力。