Marie Kondo partners with Google to help organize your collection of photos and documents. Your trash can is going to overflow!
I’m sure you remember marie condo, the interior design therapist who made us feel like we had wasted our lives by leaving the toilet seat open. It triumphed a few years ago on Netflix with his radical methods to order a house. “If it doesn’t make you happy, throw it away.“.
Now Marie Kondo returns to get into the lion’s den: our collection of photos, documents, and other unusable content from our Google Mail, Google Drive and Google Photos accounts.
Actually it’s all part of an advertising campaign for Google One, Google’s payment service which offers more space and new tools for the three mentioned applications. Regardless of whether you are interested in Google One or not, Marie Kondo offers some interesting tips to order the absolute chaos in our Google accounts.
Google has realized that most of the users of its apps suffer from Diogenes Syndrome, which basically means that we put everything that comes to us in Google Drive or Google Photos, and then we forget about it.
That’s a problem for Google, which has a cloud full of junk content that no one uses. But this also makes users don’t know or can’t find what they needamong tens of thousands of files.
In the opening video of the news we see how Marie Kondo explains to the actor, screenwriter and producer Keegan-Michael Key the advantages of using Google One, when you already have the 15 GB free that Google Drive offers you.
More interesting is this Google blog postwhere Marie Kondo explains some tricks to find photos or documents faster in Mail, Photos and Drivewithout the need to be subscribed to Google One.
Mari Kondo proposes label all emails that arrive in the Mail inboxto always keep said tray empty.
In Google Photos, it is recommended to make a backup copy of all your photos in the cloud, so that they are not lost. When searching, do not search only by the file names of the photos, or dates. Thanks to Google AI you can search by objects or people that appear in the photosuch as: “photos of me on the beach” or “photos with a wedding cake”.
In Google Drive recommends creating folders to organize filesand search using multiple filters at the same time, to narrow down your searches.
If you fill the 15 GB of Google Drive and you don’t want to delete anything, Google One it costs 1.99 euros 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.
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