# digital hygiene

Recurring maintenance keeps the digital footprint legible, private, and recoverable.

## Practices using this concept

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### [Map your digital toolkit](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/map-your-digital-toolkit.md)

A digital footprint is easier to control when its accounts, services, and dependencies are visible.

**Start small:** Use your password manager to list five important accounts.

### [Delete unused online accounts](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/delete-unused-online-accounts.md)

An account that no longer serves a purpose remains an unnecessary dependency and exposure.

**Start small:** Delete one unused account after saving anything you still need from it.

### [Use the phone as temporary storage](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/use-the-phone-as-temporary-storage.md)

A phone can capture new media temporarily while the long-term library lives in owned, recoverable storage.

**Start small:** Choose one completed month of media and decide where its long-term copy belongs.

### [Reassess your digital toolkit regularly](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/reassess-your-digital-toolkit-regularly.md)

A tool should keep earning its place as needs, products, policies, and personal boundaries change.

**Start small:** Review one tool whose place in your life you have not reconsidered during the past year.

### [Review privacy settings regularly](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/review-privacy-settings-regularly.md)

Privacy choices drift as products add features, change policies, and introduce new defaults.

**Start small:** Review the privacy settings of one service you use often.

### [Maintain recoverable backups](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/maintain-recoverable-backups.md)

Important data is not protected until an independent copy can actually be restored.

**Start small:** Restore one important file from a backup and verify that the recovered copy opens correctly.

### [Review connected apps and permissions](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/review-connected-apps-and-permissions.md)

Connected apps can retain access to sensitive accounts and data after their original purpose has ended.

**Start small:** Open the connected-apps page for one important account and remove one integration you no longer use.

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