#Clockedin with Jordan Edwards

5 Minute Friday: Digital Detox for Productivity

Jordan Edwards Season 6 Episode 278

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Your screen might look tidy, but the constant swirl of tabs, alerts, and inbox pings is stealing your best work. We break down a fast, practical system to turn digital chaos into a calm, focused workspace that helps you think clearly and move faster.

We start by decluttering and designing your screen on purpose. Close nonessential tabs and split your work into dedicated windows or virtual desktops so each space has one job. Then set smart defaults that prevent distraction: keep creation tools on one desktop and quarantine email, chat, and social on another you check on a schedule. Fewer visual inputs mean fewer mental exits, which means more momentum on the tasks that actually matter.

From there, we lean into automation. Map the repetitive steps in your week—file handoffs, versioning, social scheduling, status updates—and let simple tools and AI-assisted platforms do the heavy lifting. The goal is to remove low-value clicks so your attention stays on decisions and craft. Finally, protect deep focus windows. Flip your phone to do not disturb, turn down system sounds, and work in a single-window view. One notification can cost twenty minutes of recovery; defending your peak energy hours pays compounding dividends.

We wrap with a simple challenge: spend twenty minutes on a weekly digital reset. Close lingering tabs, clean your desktop, and refine your defaults so Monday starts with a clear runway. If this helped, follow the show, share it with a friend who drowns in tabs, and drop a review with your favorite automation tip—we’re reading every one.

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SPEAKER_00:

This is Five Minute Friday, and we're gonna turn your digital desk into a productivity machine with four tips. So, does your desk it might look clean, but is your digital workplace chaos? Which I imagine it is, just like all of ours. There's files everywhere, there's tabs open, there's all these things going on, and we lose our focus constantly. So, what are the four tips that we're gonna do to declutter? And we're gonna do this in less than five minutes. The first one is declutter your digital space. And what this means is that every tab you have open is mental leakage. So, what you wanna do is close down the tabs, and maybe you want to have even separate tabs for certain things you're doing. Like I have multiple different views, like with the Apple, you can like do a thing up, and then basically what ends up happening is you have two different options, right? So, what that does is that allows you to have two different desktops at the same time. So you can think about each one that you're currently on, and that's been a huge help for me, and I think that would help you as well. The second thing is that you have to design your default tabs, meaning that if you have your Gmail open or your Outlook open or any of these different emailing platforms, I aming, LinkedIn, you're getting so many dings all day long that it becomes very challenging. So, what you might want to do is have your work on one file and then on a completely different one, all of your notifications. Because every time you get a notification, it takes away from what you're trying to do. The third one is you want to start automating repeative stuff. So for me, I have a podcast, obviously, and I get content from the different things. And what I have to do is I have to share them with the editors, I have to share them with thumbnail people, I have to share them with different people. So I start to automate those tasks. So anything you see that you're doing repetitively on a consistent basis, you want to eliminate. Like there's even ways of eliminating social posting. You can use different platforms that have AI in them that will help you post and you can schedule all your posts so that you're not constantly thinking about that. Because when you automate your activities, it will completely open up your mindset for the next level and for what is more to come. And then the fourth one is you want to guard your focus windows. So that means if you are in a in the zone in a really focused time, what you want to do is completely remove all distraction. So on my phone, I'll put my phone into do not disturb, I'll focus, I'll turn down the volume on my computer and I'll just lock in. Why? Because every ding they say knocks off your focus by 23 minutes. Meaning all of us are getting dinged, text, fenmos, this, that, 24-7. So when is the time to focus? For me, it's really helped me focusing early in the morning. So I challenge you today on this five minute Friday to spend 20 minutes cleaning up your desktop, cleaning up your tabs, cleaning up everything you need to do so that you can go in and crush the next work week on Monday. I want to thank you and I want we will talk very soon. Have a great Friday. Thank you.