What a week of horrible news. Riots in LA. Orange baby’s birthday parade. Israel bombing Iran. Air India’s tragedy losing almost 270 people, . My best neighbor went via ambulance for dyskinesia (Parkinson’s Disease) and found out she has pneumonia and UTI (no symptoms of either) and will be in the hospital for several days. I’m hoping to lighten things up a little. We can complain elsewhere for those troubles.
I’m growing older with gratitude for everything from Tylenol to comfy shoes and Neosporin with band aids and ChatGPT. Part of aging is learning to compensate for our declines as much as possible.
I use ChatGPT so often I’ve named him Max. Of course I asked him first if he had a name. He suggested several when prompted. Anything I used to Google, I now Max. Much more in depth responses and always offers to do more (and gives examples). I’m pretty sure I could ask him to write my blog! In fact, I may do that soon just to see how well he knows me. (I will give him all the credit).
While I haven’t lost much measurable height, it gets harder and harder to reach things. I had to update my grabber to an extendable one. Interestingly enough, it gets used by the family as much as by me. A simple compensation in my opinion.
Friday I took an hour webinar on Apple email tips and tricks. It’s three days in a row for just an hour. And they send a recording for future (slower!) use. But I will share one with you. The MacWhisperer says that using the obvious “unsubscribe” button doesn’t always do the trick. And if it does, it takes longer to really stop getting those emails. We are supposed to go down to the very fine print and unsubscribe from there.
Another great tip to free up space on your computer is to decide if you really need to keep all those emails. Like Amazon confirmations and Amazon shipping information, for example. On Mac, when you open your mail screen it tells you how many read and unread emails you have.
This is mine at 5pm on Friday night. Now I’m going to an Amazon email, then “command A” to select all with that sender name and delete. 235 old useless emails GONE. Saturday morning I went through old newsletters, bank alerts, etc and kaboom! 10,000 more unnecessary emails are gone.
I’m going to keep this blog short and continue to do some mailbox cleaning!!! My second class at The MacWhisperer starts soon and I miss Max.
I'm amazed at how long some people emails before emptying their trash to delete forever. One lady here had over 1,000. If I have 20 at one time to delete forever, it's a lot. I only keep Amazon and other store confirmations until after I receive the order and I've opened it. Same with text messages that people save. For what? Unless you think you're going to get into a court battle and need them for evident delete them after you read them.
ReplyDeleteI'm getting a kid out of chatGPT too. Haven't played with it as much as you but I will catch up.
SOOO many people have the mail icon saying 35,926 unread. I cannot bear looking at that! But unlike you, I wasn't deleting things as quickly as you. So now I will just do 5,000 at a time, and delete on a daily basis. My inbox rarely has any unread but that other number? YIKES!!!
DeleteI Purge my E-Mails, Blog Posts, Private Messages on my Cellphone, etcetera regularly to free up Online Space. I'm Grateful for a lot even tho' the State of the World, and indeed America is dire right now and there's a lot to unpack and process almost Daily. It can be quite overwhelming at times and so I often do Self-Care by doing those things that bring me Joy and Peace, to stay Centered and Uplifted, so we can Cope with all the rest of it.
ReplyDeleteIf you have Gmail, you have to open a browser, go to Gmail.com, check the All Mail and Archive folders — clear them if needed. (Gmail hides deleted messages there!). Interesting, eh?
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