My Mail app takes up over a tenth of my total iPhone storage. I've been working on whittling down what I keep on my phone recently, and I still can't understand why the mail app takes up so much space. I assume it's because I've sent so many large documents to myself over the years and because I don't delete messages as they come in. So I need a way to offload many years of junk into an archive (not stored on my phone) that doesn't permanently delete it.
There is a LOT of clutter. I've always loved purging and throwing away material possessions, and we will never be in danger of being a pack rat/hoarder home. It helps, in some ways, to not have much space to begin with. You're committed from the outset to living only with the bare essentials.
But with my digital life I can't tell the gold from the dross anymore, at least not without months of sifting and digging. And I value the gold too much to just delete it all at this point.
Data centers, apparently, account for 1% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, and that number is only supposed to climb. I think that I've become a digital hoarder, and I don't even use a computer or phone terribly much.
I recently reactivated my Facebook account long enough to retrieve some old family photos that were posted there and only there. It was a delight to see them again and to have (digitally backed up) a record of some of James and Owen's early adventures. That gold does feel like really gold.
But 15 GB of spammy marketing emails, orchestra memos, and choir reminders is a lot of dross...
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