I’m sure you remember Marie Kondo, an interior design therapist who made us feel like we wasted our lives by leaving the toilet seat open. A few years ago he won on Netflix with his radical methods to order a house. “If it doesn’t make you happy, throw it away.“.
Currently Marie Kondo returns to enter the lion’s den: our collection of photos, documents and other useless content from our Google Mail, Google Drive and Google Photos accounts.
Actually it’s all part advertising campaign for Google One, Google’s payment service which offers more space and new tools for the three apps mentioned. Whether you’re interested in Google One or not, Marie Kondo offers some interesting tips to help bring order to the absolute chaos in our Google accounts.
Google realized that most users of his applications suffer from Diogenes syndrome, which basically means we put whatever comes to us on Google Drive or Google Photos and then forget about it.
This is a problem for Google, which has a cloud full of inappropriate content that no one is using. But it also does users don’t know or can’t find what they needamong tens of thousands of files.
In the news’ introductory video, we see Marie Kondo explain to actor, screenwriter and producer Keegan-Michael Key the benefits of using Google One when you already have the free 15GB that Google Drive is offering you.
More interesting is this Google blog post where Marie Kondo explains how to speed up the search for photos or documents in Mail, Photos, and Drivewithout the need for a Google One subscription.
Marie Kondo Suggests flag all emails that arrive in the Mail inboxto always keep the specified tray empty.
Google Photos recommends that you back up all your photos to the cloud so they don’t get lost. When searching, don’t just search by photo filenames or dates. Thanks to Google’s artificial intelligence, you can search by objects or people that appear in the photofor example: “my photo on the beach” or “photo with a wedding cake.”
Google Drive recommends creating folders to organize filesand search using multiple filters at the same time to narrow down your search.
If you’re filling up 15 GB of Google Drive and don’t want to delete anything, Google One It costs €1.99 per month and you get 100 GB of space, exclusive tools, expert help and the ability to share the plan with up to 5 people. There are more advanced plans that offer more space.
Source: Computer Hoy
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