Do any of you do a End of Year / Start of New Year task list in regard to your computer systems?
Every year in December I Create a project in Things and add a bunch of computer-related tasks that I usually accomplish in Late December. Some of these are apart of quarterly or monthly tasks I already perform but here is some of the main tasks on my list. Most of it is just reviewing and cleaning up folders and files.
-Review & Purne
-Docs, Music, Pictures, Movies Folder
Aflred Workflows
Keyboard maestro Macors (Sort by Last used and review if still needed)
Schedule my recurring bills in Things for the year (Electric, Cable)
Review / Prune Social Media Connections*
(I started this a few years ago so each year its maybe 1 or two people a year now. I request my data from the service (LinkedIn, Instagram / Twitter) and than export the friend list to CSV, Import in Excel and scroll the list putting a mark next to anybody I want to remove. Its a very easy process creating the list in excel)
What are some end of year / start of year tasks you run on your systems?
I prune social media connections organically, which is why I still only follow ~220 accounts on Twitter (last I looked). If I made a concerted effort I could likely get it well below 200, but that would be mostly inactive accounts. I should get around to “pruning” LinkedIn… aka deleting my account.
The single task I do on 1 January every year, for which a Reminder is all I need, is to change the filename prefix on my camera. It’s currently “KP22” which represents photos taken with my Pentax KP in 2022. That will, of course, become “KP23”.