Tidy '24 began as a year-long run of weekly digital-organization topics and ended up covering a wide range of practical and reflective ground.
Tidy '24: That's a wrap!
By the end of 2024, the series had covered:
- January: Email — Getting to Inbox Zero
- February: Photos — Collecting and organizing pictures and videos
- March: Tasks — Centralizing and tracking what needs to be done
- April: Apps — Simplifying the tools used for daily activities
- May: Mindset — Thinking about data more effectively
- June: Review — Revisiting the previous five monthly topics
- July: Security — Building safer habits and spotting scams
- August: Baby Steps — Finding small ways to make a big dent over time
- September: Habits — Building new behaviors intentionally
- October: Big Picture — Clarifying why clean data matters
- November: Analog — Dealing with physical information like paper, photos, and tapes
- December: Wildcard — Exploring useful extra topics that did not need a full month each
The Tidy '24 archive now functions as a year-long index of digital-organization ideas rather than a sequence of inbox-only messages.
One of the strongest themes in the whole project was the shift from obsessing over how to organize toward understanding why certain work matters in the first place. That perspective helps you decide what deserves your time, what can be simplified, and what may not need to be done at all.
If you want to revisit the full series, the archive hub is the best place to browse by topic and month.
And if one section stands out more than the others, that is useful information too. The most valuable parts of a long project are often the ones that continue shaping how you think after the details fade.
However you came to Tidy '24—at the beginning, somewhere in the middle, or just at the end—thanks for taking the journey.