Digital Organization — Month One

$49.00

This is the month your digital life gets organized.

It’s for the afternoon someone asks which account pays the property tax and you answer without going to look. It’s for the week a card is replaced and you know, in five minutes, everything that was auto-billing to it. It’s for the evening you go looking for a photograph from nine years ago and you have it open in under a minute.

You work through four areas over four weeks, and each area takes the same three steps: inventory, edit, then store and record. You start with your email and the accounts attached to it. The next week you go through your money and find everything that is auto-renewing. The week after that you work through your files, across the six places they are scattered. In the last week you cover your devices, your contacts, and the accounts you look after on someone else’s behalf.

Two hours a week is the rhythm we suggest. If you have more time, use it, and if you have less, the system still works. You follow the four weeks in order, and you schedule the hours in the shape that suits you: one long session on a Sunday, or five short ones in the twenty minutes before anyone else is up.

There is real pleasure in the doing, not only in the finishing. You set a timer, you sit down with your coffee, and you do one part of that week’s work. When the timer goes off, you stop. Every session leaves something finished behind it, and you will find yourself looking forward to the next one.

Month One of the Digital Life Management System. 54 pages. PDF. Instant download. No login required.

This is the month your digital life gets organized.

It’s for the afternoon someone asks which account pays the property tax and you answer without going to look. It’s for the week a card is replaced and you know, in five minutes, everything that was auto-billing to it. It’s for the evening you go looking for a photograph from nine years ago and you have it open in under a minute.

You work through four areas over four weeks, and each area takes the same three steps: inventory, edit, then store and record. You start with your email and the accounts attached to it. The next week you go through your money and find everything that is auto-renewing. The week after that you work through your files, across the six places they are scattered. In the last week you cover your devices, your contacts, and the accounts you look after on someone else’s behalf.

Two hours a week is the rhythm we suggest. If you have more time, use it, and if you have less, the system still works. You follow the four weeks in order, and you schedule the hours in the shape that suits you: one long session on a Sunday, or five short ones in the twenty minutes before anyone else is up.

There is real pleasure in the doing, not only in the finishing. You set a timer, you sit down with your coffee, and you do one part of that week’s work. When the timer goes off, you stop. Every session leaves something finished behind it, and you will find yourself looking forward to the next one.

Month One of the Digital Life Management System. 54 pages. PDF. Instant download. No login required.

What’s inside

Every week works the same way.

Each area takes the same three steps: inventory, edit, then store and record. The order is what makes it hold. When you record before you edit, you end up maintaining a careful list of things you did not want.

Week One

Your Email & Your Accounts

A separate job for each of your email addresses, and every account attached to them, including the ones you had forgotten you opened.

Week Two

Your Money

Every account, every card, and everything auto-renewing against them, in one place where you can see all of it.

Week Three

Your Files

Your photographs, your cloud storage, your desktop, your apps, your messages, and the drive in a drawer. Six locations, in any order you like.

Week Four

Your Devices & Your People

Your phones and laptops, the people in your contacts, and anything you look after on someone else’s behalf.

Also included

A bonus section on tracking down forgotten accounts · the weekly rhythm that keeps everything current · a reference appendix · and a Month One checklist.

Before you buy

Questions

What do I get, and how?

A PDF. The download link appears on screen as soon as you pay, and it arrives by email as well. No account, no login, no app. The file is yours to keep, print and mark up.

Do I need to be technical?

No. If you can use email and a web browser, you can do all of it. Every step is written out in plain language, and nothing asks you to install software or change a setting we have not explained first.

How long does it take?

Four weeks at about two hours a week is the rhythm it was written for. Some people work through it over a long weekend, and some take a whole season. The order matters, the speed does not.

Do I need the Workbook as well?

No. A spreadsheet you set up yourself will hold everything Month One asks you to record. We recommend the Workbook because every tab and column is already labelled and waiting, and because it carries straight through Months Two and Three, so you only ever build it once.

Can I get a refund?

Digital downloads are final sale. Once the file has been delivered there’s no way to return it, and this is a small business protecting work that took thousands of hours to make. If your download doesn’t arrive, or the file won’t open, reply to your receipt and we’ll sort it out. And if you read the whole thing and think it was worthless, write and tell us. That sits outside our policy and we don’t make a habit of it, but we’re not going to argue with you about a PDF.