5 ways to KonMari your smartphone
If you started watching Marie Kondo's hit Netflix show when it premiered in January, by now you have probably KonMari'd every inch of your home and closets.
But what about your smartphone?
Your phone is likely one of the things you rely on and look at most during your day.
It can also become just as cluttered and hard to manage as the "junk drawer" in your kitchen (everyone has one).
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Here are five ways to apply the KonMari method of organizing to your smartphone.
1. Delete apps that do not 'spark joy'
Take a step right out of Kondo's playbook and get rid of anything on your phone that you do not absolutely want to be there.
Go through each app and ask yourself if the app sparks joy for you. If it does not, hold it down with your finger and click the X to delete it.
2. Organize your apps by color
Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin, authors of "The Home Edit: A Guide to Organizing and Realizing Your House Goals," have taken a rainbow approach to organization inside the homes of celebs like Khloe Kardashian and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Shearer applies the same color-coded organization on her phone, organizing her apps by color.
"For me, color-coordination is intuitive, and by far the easiest way for me to find what I'm looking for," she told "GMA." "Apps are designed to intentionally be memorable and stand-out so, without trying, you instinctively know the color of your favorite and most-used apps."
3. 'Fold' your apps
Kondo's most famous organizing trick is the KonMari folding method which allows you to easily see your clothes in a drawer or on a shelf.
Do the same with your phone by "folding" your apps by category. For example, group the apps where you watch movies or read books into a folder labeled "Entertainment" using either text or emojis.
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Put your apps focused on diet and exercise into a folder labeled "Health."
4. 'Tidy up' the content of your apps
Viewers of “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo" can see that Kondo's method is truly life-changing for the families she visits, freeing up mental and physical space in their lives.
Just like seeing clothes spilling out of a drawer or closet can be overwhelming, so can an email app that shows thousands of unread emails or a messaging app that shows dozens of unread texts.
Give yourself a block of time to clear out those apps so your phone screen is free of notifications. Make it a priority and once it's done, you will have that mental space cleared up too.
5. Move apps out of sight
Out of sight, out of mind. If you have apps you want to use less (hello social media), move them off your phone's home screen.
Catherine Price, the author of "How to Break Up With Your Phone," calls this approach creating "speed bumps" for yourself.
Depending on how often you want to use the app, even consider giving it a screen of its own to really set it apart.
