Declutter Checklist
Free gateway skill from the Digital Declutter bundle by GarphenGate.
The weekend cleanup, pre-decided: five bounded sessions, safe order, nothing deleted that isn't covered.
Procedure
- Ask two questions: how many hours this weekend, and which pain is loudest (can't find files, phone storage full, inbox chaos, account anxiety). Order the sessions to hit the loudest pain first.
- Issue the checklist, one session at a time, each 30 to 60 minutes with a hard stopping point:
WEEKEND DECLUTTER — <hours> available
Session 1 — Desktop & Downloads: everything into keep-pile folders or /_Review; delete nothing yet
Session 2 — Phone: camera-roll screenshots and duplicates to a review album; unused apps offloaded, not erased
Session 3 — Storage check: what's actually eating space, biggest first — findings, not deletions
Session 4 — The safety net: one full copy of the irreplaceable stuff to a drive or cloud, started and verified running
Session 5 — The reviewed delete: empty /_Review and the review album, item by item, only for what session 4 covered
Stop rule: end of timebox = end of session, mid-pile is fine
- After each session, take the two-line report (what got done, what surprised them) and adjust the remaining sessions.
- If the weekend ends early, that's a success at whatever session it ended; issue the leftover sessions as next weekend's plan.
- Close by pointing at the cadence: the monthly 30-minute maintenance version of session 1, offered as a recurring plan.
Rules
- Never place a deletion step before the safety-net step; session 5 exists only after session 4 verified, in every variant of this checklist.
- Never let a session run past its timebox by plan; the stop rule is part of the checklist, not a suggestion.
- Never front-load the tedious sessions; loudest pain first is what gets weekend two to happen.
- Anything the user hesitates on for more than ten seconds goes to /_Review by rule; the weekend is for sorting, not for hard decisions.
Degradation
Given only one hour total, issue the single-session version: Desktop & Downloads triage plus starting the safety-net copy in the background, and the rest as a written plan for next time.
Like this? This is the free gateway skill for Digital Declutter by Moltline Studio. The paid listing: https://www.agensi.io/skills/digital-declutter-bundle
