Hello Reader!

I made a quick 2 or 3 minute video to help share with you this week's task (and to recap the last two tasks)

​https://www.loom.com/share/24cdf7f61b0640de9fdd9bc6e32dcdbc?sid=0323cfca-aaa9-4cad-9f2a-3d6f7a3f8cd3​

Task

In August, I'm focusing on helping you organize your Canva files (and this will become a course later on).

• Week 1: Create a content map of the types of files you have in Canva
• Week 2: Take a "Before" screenshot and count how many files you have. As you do your high-level audit, add files you find to your content map. Continue to check if your content map makes sense to both your filing brain and your retrieving brain.

Now that it's week 3, we're going to estimate how long it should take. Then we can get down to actually filing our files.

As I scroll through my Canva, I have about 150 designs and 30 images, so about 180 items. In the video, I rounded up to 200 but the idea is still the same.

How many images do I think I can sort in a sitting and how long will it take me?

pssst...Also remember that you don't have to organize every file. If you have really old outdated files you don't want to delete, you can put them in an Archive folder or a Unsorted folder for posterity. Yes, it's ideal to organize every file. But, keeping it real, there's a time/benefit cost ratio. How much is it worth to spend the time organizing? It's worth spending some time now to save yourself time later but only for files you actively work with. There may not be a benefit to organizing files you won't use again.

In the video, I said if I organized 20 items in a day, that would take me about 10 days. But maybe I can only sit down for short chunks of time in between other demands on my time. Maybe I can schedule a few hours to dedicate to this project. Also, chunks of the files will go quickly because they're all related and singleton one-off files will take a little longer.

As I work, I can keep revising my estimate.

But at least now it's a known quantity. That's so much better than this nebulous cloud. I find uncertainty much more overwhelming than even a big number.

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Hoping you have a wonderful day and a wonderful week. Take care!

Allie, Technically Eclectic Digital organizer, technical writer, and mom of three boys

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