We need to stop treating “digital decluttering” like Marie Kondo for screenshots. Some things should be deleted—old passwords, cringey tweets, 17 copies of the same meme. But other things? The weird, incomplete, unshareable artifacts of who you used to be? Those deserve a real archive. Not a public one. Not a performative one. Just a quiet, encrypted folder labeled something honest.
As digital ecosystems become more closed, the role of MyDigitalLife has shifted toward transparency and user control. mydigitallife