Early Spring Cleaning

It's time for an early spring cleaning.

I know, it's only February, but I have to Get Shit Done(tm)

I'm going to try Trademarking that at some point. "Getting Things Done"
is too lackadaisical to mean that you're getting serious, in my
opinion - with all due respect to David Allen. "Things" just doesn't
convey the necessity of some tasks which have to get done for me in my
life at this point.

I used to go to sleep past dawn. Literally. I'm sure we all have, but I
used to do it with an insane regularity which made other people wince
when they heard about my lifestyle. And now, it's the reverse. I like
waking up early. I like waking up before the sun rises. I relish the
quiet time in the wee hours of the morning when barely anyone is walking
about outside. It's the same feeling I got while staying up extremely
late all through the night. Only now, I wake up and don't feel like most
of the day has gone past and that I have to rush to do anything at all
in the world outside. It's a calming feeling.

Since I was one of the first people to be invited to the beta test of
Gmail back in 2001 or 2002 (I honestly can't remember, it was so long
ago), I have emails which date back from that time. I regularly delete
things, but I still have over 103,000 messages, which is too many.
Frankly, what am I going to do with a "Welcome to Houzz!" email from
2005? Why would I honestly need that? It's nice to know that I've been a
member of certain sites from paleolithic times, back when WiFi wasn't
even a thing, but is it honestly necessary to store that forever? I
think not. So, part of the spring cleaning is for files. It gets me
motivated to delete things in my real life when I start deleting swathes
of useless crap in my digital life. And I'm glad that I've been deleting
useless stuff all of these years since I'd think that number would
probably be closer to 1,000,000 Emails or more if I hadn't.

My every day goal since many years is Inbox Zero, which I've held up
pretty well to be a standard for myself over the years. Emacs has,
naturally helped with this. I suppose I could use Apple Mail to do it
now, as it has timed reminders on emails, but I haven't yet looked up
how to utilize this function without leaving the email in my inbox,
which I refuse to do. I'm quite certain that it's fairly simple to do
however, but I like how I can reference archived emails in Emacs to read
later or get back to directly to my inbox.org file.

I've cleaned out a ton of stuff from my emails, but it'll be ongoing for
a while. Also: I've decided to sync org-agenda with my Nextcloud
instance. I only got it working for one-way sync at the moment, but I'm
working on it.