How to Evaluate Your Social Media Use and Free Up Time

I just lived without my main email for almost two weeks, and that turned out to be quite nice. Just before I left on a longer trip, I messed up my Microsoft Office suite (don’t ask, I don’t quite know how that happened). My Outlook was uninstalled. I could only access my email through my Internet provider’s nasty webmail interface.

My Outlook inbox with its accumulated emails is my main lifeline in terms of work and writing. But you know what? I could live without it for a while. What needed...