July 2025 Minimal Monthly Hello, hello! It's funny how a pleasant three-second interaction can sweeten your whole day. I recently read about a professional who had a simple but powerful approach to her workplace relationships: she ended every interaction, no matter how challenging, with a genuine, positive note about the other person. You can already guess the outcome. People felt good after speaking to her. And because people remember feelings, she was highly regarded across her entire...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
June 2025 Minimal Monthly Hello, hello! I've been on another one of my massive purges the past couple of weeks, and made more progress in my year-long Swedish death cleaning roadmap, woot. It started innocently enough one Saturday afternoon. I had to reconfigure a Sonos speaker sitting on my little trolley of office supplies. Then I noticed the trolley was all dusty. When I started dusting, I realised a lot of it can go. That sparked a big paperwork shredding session. Then I decided to let go...
2 months ago • 3 min read
May 2025 Minimal Monthly Hello, hello! AI is everywhere, ok, but have you tried it for organising? I’m always experimenting with small ways to make life simpler. This month, I discovered a surprisingly useful prompt that turns your GPT into a personal tidy-up coach. Upload a photo, get an organising plan. That’s it. Here’s how it works: 1. Take a clear photo or screenshot of the space or digital mess you want to tidy. 2. Open ChatGPT and upload your image. 3. Paste this into the chat: I’ve...
3 months ago • 2 min read
April 2025 Minimal Monthly Hello, hello! Funny how certain home maintenance tasks become routine, while others completely fly under the radar... Oh, heck. I was about to write a whole ode to mattress hoovering but my heart isn't in spring cleaning today. The truth is, I've been reflecting on sustainability lately. Not environmental sustainability, but the sustainability of our digital lives and creative endeavours. Algorithms change overnight, search engines now serve AI answers, and...
4 months ago • 2 min read
March 2025 Minimal Monthly Well hello! Does feeling physically 'off' ever completely derail your housekeeping? I had a painful reminder of this connection the other week after managing to spectacularly pull my back out yet once again (highly do not recommend). Suddenly, the desire to keep up with everything was completely overshadowed by the effort required to simply move without bawling from the pain. The whole episode highlighted how much our physical state dictates our capacity for...
5 months ago • 2 min read
August 2024 Minimal Monthly Hi Reader, Home organisation obviously focuses on the tangible—sorting through drawers, decluttering closets, and arranging living spaces. But what about things beyond our physical environment, noise for example? In a free society, much like in our homes, we face an abundance of choices. Just as we navigate through our possessions, democracy allows us to sift through a multitude of information, opinions and ideas, and tune out what we don't like and what doesn't...
about 1 year ago • 2 min read
May 2024 Minimal Monthly Hi Reader, If your favourite home & garden bloggers have been quieter lately, it's because they're deep in the trenches of social media, trying to figure out how to recoup the 70-90% loss in website traffic they're suffering. And it's not just home & garden that's been hit. Now that Google prefers to serve content from Forbes and Reddit (or just display utter nonsense), web publishers large and small are in the doghouse. Adding insult to injury, everyone's content was...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read
February 2024 Minimal Monthly Hi Reader, Happy leap year. I was so glad for the extra day. These past few weeks have been super busy rebranding and redesigning the site. But, ta-da, I'm happy to share Tidymalism has a fresh new look 🎉 The new site features faster mobile loading, larger, crisper fonts, less bloat, a new resources page, and a friendlier splash of colour. Come have a browse while I work out the last few caching kinks, and feel free to hit reply to send any feedback. Speaking of...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read