Maybe i am weirdly unorganized, but i think TODO lists of any sort, are useless and a complete waste of time.

What do people even put on these?

A list containing miscelanous stuff like "read book x" or" visit place y" serves no purpose other than having an ever growing list of stuff you will never do.

Pocket is the first thing i throw out on an fresh Firefox install. Had no idea what purpose it serves until recently and though it to be bloatware added by Mozzilla to make a quick buck.

Never understodd the idea of something like that.

Why would i want dump of unread tabs and random crap i stumble upon to be splerched over all my devices? Makes no sense since the work tabs differ from the private one and the stuff on the phone.

If it is a random article i just read it or open it in a tab.

Every couple of days (or if the tabs annoy me) i just closeall my browser tabs and thats it.

If its work related i close the tabs belonging to that task if the task is done.

Bookmarks are used for pages i visit often (not random crap!) to help the autocompletion to do its job properly on freshly synced devices.

Why would i want to store a news article anywhere? Its outdated tomorrow. If that random article, blogpost or recipe for fried carrot soup is not ready by me today i will never read it. So why would i keep it?

Here is what i use:

I have a really dumb shopping list app for groceries on my phone. Milk emtpy? -> untic milk so i do not forget it next time i am shopping. A genereal TODO list is just overhead here.

A calendar including birthdays, some reminders for important (!) events (important like: the plane starts at 07).

For work there is some management tool for the tasks that need to be done (provided by the company for company stuff).

Contacts synced via DAV (Phone numbers and the like) i do not use Facebook, Google or anything like that (nobody should really).

People i have not met for a year or two get deleted. The random party guy gets deleted quickly if i do not think i will meet him again in the near future.

Bookmarks and Passwords are synced via Firefox (not the tabs!).

I have a collection of a few GB of music, all of which i like and have heard multiple times.

A bunch of photos, i put the the Photos i like to long term storage (an external hard drive).

The rest get auto deleted when the smartphone dies or needs a reset or i fidget with the bootloader and wipe everything.

No automatic sync via Google, Dropox or whatever (these a just giant garbage dumps).

As for emails:

I try to keep my inbox empty, not by reading, but by preventing inflow.

That means not giving mail address away willy-nilly.

That means i unsubsribe from those spam thingies every webshop has (i don't care that the Plumbus is 20% off today), i unsubsrcibe from every mailinglist, RSSand what not the moment i deliveres the slightest annoyance by wasting my time. That is, manually deleting crap i did not want to read.

My unread inbox is generally empty all the time because i just do not accept time wasting garbage there. And the garbage threshold is very very low.

That is really awesome, because i never miss the impotant messages.

Not sure what to do if you are a compulsive hoarder of data garbage.

Maybe some sort of deprecation would help. Hoarding animals have the advantage that the stuff they hoard becomes compost after some time.

If this where to be true for data, that would be quite nice because there would be an upper limit of items (dependent on the rate of influx)

But ultimately there is too much media to consume, too many places to visit and too much stuff to do in a lifetime.

Not sure why people do that i am too lazy to bother with lists.

I can understand people collecting things for a hobby. Like movies or stamps.

But never try to collect everything, collect the things you like.