Search for “Untitled”

 

(This tip came from Monica Burns Spring Cleaning Newsletter.  Since several of her suggestions related to Gmail (which we don't use), I didn’t link the entire document.

Here’s what she shared: 

Do you make lots of documents on the fly? Whether you are demoing a strategy for students or showing off a quick tip to your colleagues, you might have a lot of documents that aren’t serving a purpose anymore. In Google Drive, these documents are named “Untitled” by default. So head over to your Google Drive or OneDrive or wherever your files live and search by keyword for “Untitled.” Then, either delete these documents or give them a name and drag them to a folder.

If you start feeling overwhelmed by this task, set a timer for 10 minutes so you have a stop time. Suppose you feel like you want to keep going when the timer goes off, awesome. If not, set a reminder on your calendar to revisit this task.