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Time for some digital spring cleaning: How to organize your tech life

You could just delete everything. But let’s try some more moderate tech cleanup tactics first.

Vjeran Pavic for Re/code

Summer’s almost here — but before you start Instagramming up the barbecue, wouldn’t it be nice to declutter all the technology in your life?

It can be hard to know where to start. Luckily, there’s the newest episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask, in which Kara Swisher and Lauren Goode tell you everything you need to know about digital spring cleaning:

Kara and Lauren discuss strategies for tidying up overloaded email inboxes, apps you never use and gadgets that are gathering dust in your closet. They also share readers’ and listeners’ tips for digital cleanup, including the nuclear option: Delete everything!

Thank you to everyone who submitted questions and digital spring cleaning suggestions — remember that you can always send in questions about any topic to us by tweeting @LaurenGoode, @KaraSwisher or @Recode with the hashtag #AskRecode.

Listen to or download the episode in the player above, or click here to subscribe on iTunes. We also just launched on Google Play Music! Or, you can find Too Embarrassed to Ask on TuneIn and Stitcher.

Want more podcasts that are made by Re/code? How about Re/code Media with Peter Kafka, which features in-depth, no-BS interviews with the most interesting people in the media world every Thursday. Click here to subscribe to Re/code Media right now on iTunes and click here to listen on Google Play Music.

On Monday, Kara Swisher will be back on Re/code Decode to interview Khosla Ventures partner Keith Rabois. Click here to subscribe on iTunes, and click here to listen on Google Play Music. And on Re/code Replay, you can hear all the audio from our live events, including some don’t-miss sessions from Code/Media 2016. To subscribe to that, click right here for iTunes and right over here for Google.

You can follow @Recode on Twitter for the latest on upcoming guests.

If you like what we’re doing, please write a review on iTunes — and if you don’t, just tweet-strafe Kara and Lauren. Tune in next Friday for another episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask!

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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