During the summer, use your time off to tackle the digital clutter piling up on your smartphone and computer desktop.
Whether you want to tame an overflowing inbox or bring schoolwork to the cloud, here are some tips to slim down your digital footprint.
Cut the clutter from e-mail. Google spokeswoman Kat Eller says Gmail can help students escape inbox overflow with the priority inbox feature, which helps determine which messages are truly important by highlighting them at the top of the screen. Not a Gmail user? No problem -- sign up for free and then visit the settings page to import other accounts into Gmail.
Put all of your music in one place. Thomas Douglas, a junior at Deerfield High School, in Deerfield, Ill., like many teens, accesses music on a variety of platforms.
"I use iTunes, Pandora, YouTube and the radio," he explains.
Spotify, a free download for Mac and PC, removes some of the complexity from finding music by pairing your own collection with millions of online tracks, making nearly any song instantly available.
Best of all, Spotify is social: You can create playlists and share them with Facebook friends. Want to take your music on-the-go? Upgrade to a $9.99 monthly plan and enjoy unlimited mobile access.
Simplify social networking. Instead of crashing your Web browser with multiple tabs, control all of your social networking from a single location. TweetDeck (www.tweetdeck.com), a free download in desktop and mobile versions, lets you manage Twitter and Facebook without flipping between screens.