Organization Tips

Keeping tech organized is sort of a hobby in itself for us. The first step in our quest for the title of Titan of Tidy Tech: picking up the charging cords off the ground. Meet the quickest way to a life of iPhone 5 efficiency: the Bluelounge Lightning MiniDock ($40).

We loved the MiniDock in its previous 30-pin incarnation and are relieved to see the dock finally available for those who have upgraded to Lightning iDevices. Plug the MiniDock into an existing USB power adapter, set the phone in its spot, and voilà! Nothing to worry about except what you'll do with all that open space on the floor or tabletop now free of tangled cords.

For devout online shoppers, here's an app guaranteed to make you just as excited as a free shipping offer: Slice, a digital tool to keep track of everything you buy online. Instead of playing the inevitable game of signature tag with the delivery person or anxiously waiting at your front door, Slice does the work and automatically tracks shipments from multiple stores to let you know when to expect each package. Even better, the app also organizes and saves receipts — that way, if a purchase doesn't work out, refunds are easy.

After tracking and organizing your purchases, Slice works as a budget guide, using graphs to show the amount of money spent online and on what type of goods. The only thing the app can't do in your shopping routine? Pick purchases for you — that'll have to wait until the robots take over.

In a YouTube video that has gone viral, professional organizer Felice Cohen displays plenty of savvy when she shows viewers how she makes a 90-square-foot apartment fit her lifestyle. For one, it already fits her budget as she's paying $700 to live alone in an apartment in New York, a city with one of the highest real estate prices in the country. Another appealing aspect of the small space is that the location is prime — Felice resides a block away from Central Park and two blocks from the subway (If the allure of the apartment's prime locale makes you want to pack up and move ASAP to a smaller home, be sure to check out these savvy moving tips!).

Although Felice initially rented the apartment with the aim of only staying for a year, she's been living there for "three years and counting." In the video she admits that some compromises had to be made, but ultimately it works out. She doesn't have to stress about rent, and when she travels, she doesn't feel like she's leaving behind a huge space that needs to be taken care of. A big influence on her frugal living is having a bankruptcy lawyer as a father. She says she "learned early on that you don't acquire what you can't afford." Watch the video below to see how she manages to make a small space work for her.

To learn some tips from Felice, read on.

Depending on the morning, checking my email can be downright stressful. I'm usually greeted by an overwhelming amount of email, which can sometimes take the better half of my day to get through. To save on time, I set my Gmail account up to delete emails from certain senders. I've also started applying labels and filters to my contacts as another way to save on time.

Find out more after the break.