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Facing digital clutter? Here're ways to clean up your messy email, WhatsApp

Remote working has increased digital clutter in our lives but there are ways of dealing with it

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WhatsApp is more difficult to clean up and a lot of the spam comes from friends and relatives who cannot be blocked without causing offence

Devangshu Datta New Delhi
The pandemic has led to a sea change in work paradigms. This has, in turn, meant very high dependency on digital means of communications. It has also meant that there’s been a commensurate increase in digital irritation, for want of a better phrase.

Most people have been using a combination of instant messengers and email, along with video conferencing software to connect to colleagues and work acquaintances. This is, in most cases, a combination of office email (which is often hosted by Google, but usually has a different address), Gmail for both personal and official work, WhatsApp for both business