Okay, let’s talk about this thing I tried recently, someone mentioned it as ‘kelsey dalition’. Not sure if that’s the real name, sounds a bit made up, but hey, I decided to give it a go myself.
Getting Started
So, the whole idea, as I understood it, was about a specific way to handle… well, let’s call it ‘clearing things out’. I had this old project folder on my backup drive, just full of junk collected over maybe two years? Stuff I thought was important once, but probably wasn’t. Seemed like a good test case for this ‘kelsey dalition’ method.
First thing I did was actually find the darn folder. Took me a bit, buried deep. Then I made a fresh cup of coffee, sat down, and just stared at the file list for a minute. You know how it is, sometimes you just gotta psych yourself up.
The Process – Diving In
Alright, so I opened the main directory. Wow. Just tons of files, subfolders, random documents, old versions of things. My plan, using this ‘dalition’ idea, was simple: be ruthless. Don’t just move stuff around, actually get rid of it. That seemed to be the core of ‘kelsey dalition’ – the decisive removal.
I started going through folder by folder. It went something like this:
- Look at the folder name. Does it even make sense anymore?
- Peek inside. What’s in here? Old code? Drafts? Images?
- Ask the big question: Have I touched this in the last year? Be honest.
- If the answer was no, or if I genuinely couldn’t remember why I saved it, into the trash it went. Dalition! (Yeah, I started calling it that in my head).
It wasn’t super technical. Just a slow, methodical process. Some parts were easy – folders clearly labeled ‘temp’ or ‘old_backup_dont_touch’ (ironic, right?). Those were quick ‘dalitions’. But then there were files named like ‘final_report_v2_updated_*’. Ugh. Those took a bit more thinking. Had to open a few, skim them. Mostly junk.
Took me basically the whole afternoon. Found some funny old notes I’d written to myself. Also found about five copies of the same base template I’d forgotten about. More stuff for the ‘dalition’ pile.
The Result
So, what happened in the end? Well, that massive project folder is probably half the size it was. Maybe even smaller. It feels way cleaner now. I can actually find the couple of useful things that were buried in there.
Was the ‘kelsey dalition’ thing revolutionary? Nah, probably not. It’s basically just spring cleaning for digital files, right? But thinking of it with that weird name, focusing on the ‘dalition’ part – the active removal – it kinda helped me stay focused and not get bogged down in saving stuff ‘just in case’.
So, yeah. That was my experience trying out the ‘kelsey dalition’. It worked for me this time. Might try it again when my downloads folder gets out of control.
